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Noun
chain gang (plural chain gangs)
- A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 205:My idea was to let that chain-gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill.
1983 December 24, David Leon Barth, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 20:I am presently donating my time and energies unwillingly to the Florida Dept. of 'Corrections', a modern institution on the surface, but a southern style chain-gang below.
- (cycling) A group of cyclists riding in a close-knit formation akin to a road race, normally for the purposes of training.
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a group of convicts chained together
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