black gang
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]black gang (plural black gangs)
- (nautical) A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gang. (i.e. one with racially black members)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Chinese 黑幫/黑帮 (hēibāng, “gangsters, gang”). The first character, 黑, translates as "black" on its own.
Noun
[edit]black gang (plural black gangs)
- (politics, historical, derogatory) propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against opponents
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 黑帮 (文革) on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh
- Kwok-sing Li (1995) “Hei bang 黑幫 (Black gang)”, in Mary Lok, transl., A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 148