gangland

English

Etymology

From gang +‎ land.

Noun

gangland (plural ganglands)

  1. The underworld of organized crime.
    • 2009 June 30, Anna Coren, “Australia gang war rages over drugs, money and power”, in CNN‎[1]:
      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.

Quotations

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Derived terms

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