chain gang
noun
plural chain gangs
: a group of people (such as convicts) chained together especially as an outside working party
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The league likes the drama of a chain gang stretching to measure for that first down.
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Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
Jim Harbaugh meanwhile was on the sidelines at a youth football game in the chain gang.
—Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
There was a man in the town of Spear [N.C., Wilson’s grandmother’s hometown] at the bottom of the mountain who was on a chain gang, accused of raping a white woman, and convicted by the jury that deliberated for five minutes.
—Jacquinn Sinclair, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
Long before the conversation around Black incarceration and prison reform, Belafonte recorded an album of chain gang work songs such as the jailor classic co-penned by folk musicologist Alan Lomax, along with Vera Hall, John Lomax, and Ruby Pickens Tartt.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
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Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
Jim Harbaugh meanwhile was on the sidelines at a youth football game in the chain gang.
—Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
There was a man in the town of Spear [N.C., Wilson’s grandmother’s hometown] at the bottom of the mountain who was on a chain gang, accused of raping a white woman, and convicted by the jury that deliberated for five minutes.
—Jacquinn Sinclair, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
Long before the conversation around Black incarceration and prison reform, Belafonte recorded an album of chain gang work songs such as the jailor classic co-penned by folk musicologist Alan Lomax, along with Vera Hall, John Lomax, and Ruby Pickens Tartt.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
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“Chain gang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chain%20gang. Accessed 22 Sep. 2024.
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