Gangland
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The underworld of organized crime.
"Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country was turned on its head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone."
- 2 underworld organizations wordnet
Example
More examples"There is a select group of videographers that enters some of America's more dangerous neighborhoods to document and tell the stories of the people who live there. These are gangland neighborhoods in places like Chicago, Los Angeles, even Fort Worth, Texas. Shawn Cotton is one of these documentarians."
Etymology
From gang + land.
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