Groups and collections
Synonyms for gang
Synonyms for gang: mob and clique. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for gang
Interchangeable with gang in this sense
Audited under gang's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gang carries in that sense.
- mobnoun, in the sense "an organized group of people who act together, often for criminal purposes"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name gang as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- cliqueclique is a noun in the sense "a small, exclusive group of people who spend time together and shut others out"
The first group is filed under gang's own sense. The second reaches gang from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
an organized group of people who act together, often for criminal purposes.
Police arrested three members of the gang after the warehouse break-in.
The true synonym
mob
Same sentence, swapped: Police arrested three members of the mob after the warehouse break-in.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot gang is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- suspects
- witnesses
- guards
Where gang turns up in the game
gang is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where gang is the trap
- bunchnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cluster, in the sense "a grouping of a number of similar things", with gang sitting one tile away.
Play gang
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gang reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gang carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.