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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The underworld of organized criminal gangs.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or carried out by organized criminals.

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  • noun The underworld of organized crime.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun underworld organizations

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Examples

  • Another 50 civilians have been bumped-off in gangland-style hits authorized by the Knesset†™ s newest Mafia Don, Ehud Olmert.

    Think Progress » U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Says Highly-Touted Baghdad Security Crackdown is Not Succeeding 2006

  • Police were questioning three people about the latest murder in one of the bloodiest feuds in Irish gangland history.

    unknown title 2009

  • Police were questioning three people about the latest murder in one of the bloodiest feuds in Irish gangland history.

    unknown title 2009

  • The next big thing in gangland fiction is going to be a fucking blockbuster: A cabal of sociopathic-yet-idiotic rich dudes pull together a coalition of differently-aggrieved white folks that takes over America (by stealing an election), and thus takes over the world.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gangland Fun 2007

  • Word has it, Danny, that you are also a target in this so-called gangland war for control.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Word has it, Danny, that you are also a target in this so-called gangland war for control.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Word has it, Danny, that you are also a target in this so-called gangland war for control.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Word has it, Danny, that you are also a target in this so-called gangland war for control.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Top attraction of the hearing was the testimony of Virginia Hill, known as gangland's sweetheart, who told the investigators that all her income came from "friends" and gambling.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Along the way, the anthology makes multiple stops in Hollywood, the one we know and the one that could never exist, from 30s noir to extraterrestrial infiltration, from a magical "gangland" to destruction after "the big one."

    Five things make a post, they say ravenelectrick 2009

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