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gangland

[ gang-land, -luhnd ]

noun

  1. the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.


gangland

/ ˈɡæŋˌlænd; -lənd /

noun

  1. the criminal underworld
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Origin of gangland1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; gang 1 + land
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Police have confirmed a series of fire-raising attacks linked to a gangland feud in Edinburgh may have spread to the west of Scotland.

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Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is trying to stop the release of a killer convicted of carrying out the so-called Essex Boys gangland murders.

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The gangland killings of three drug dealers who were found shot in the head in a Range Rover near Chelmsford in 1995 is one of the most notorious and dramatised murders in modern memory.

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The murder, which was committed in front of horrified lunchtime shoppers, was arguably the most public gangland hit ever carried out in Scotland.

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In Northern Ireland, a Somali national was arrested at asylum accommodation in Belfast on behalf of Danish authorities on suspicion of a "gangland murder" in Denmark in 2022.

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