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road gang
noun
- a group of workers employed to repair or build roads.
- (in the U.S.) a detail of prisoners set to repairing a road.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of road gang1
Example Sentences
Highly visible and degrading convict labor on road gangs was used to structure racial hierarchy in the Zone.
Jackson answered while working on a road gang to fulfill his sentence, picking up trash on the side of a Michigan highway.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., holder of degrees from at least five colleges, may spend the time on a road gang if an appeal is denied.
Each day for the past five months, a road gang has toiled on a Sisyphean task along the muddy Atlantic Coast, trying to fill a breach in a 60-mile sea wall with stones and sand.
The Stop/Go man with one of the road gangs says things are better on the Numbinbah Valley Road, another of my favourite motorbike routes back to the Gold Coast.
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