"A-gang" meaning in English

See A-gang in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-A-gang.ogg [Australia] Forms: A-gangs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} A-gang (plural A-gangs)
  1. (US, naval slang) Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems. Tags: US, slang
    Sense id: en-A-gang-en-noun-UVQyDofY Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, naval, navy, politics, war

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for A-gang meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "A-gangs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "A-gang (plural A-gangs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems."
      ],
      "id": "en-A-gang-en-noun-UVQyDofY",
      "links": [
        [
          "naval",
          "naval"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, naval slang) Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-A-gang.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/En-au-A-gang.ogg/En-au-A-gang.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-au-A-gang.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "A-gang"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "A-gangs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "A-gang (plural A-gangs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English naval slang",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "naval",
          "naval"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, naval slang) Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-A-gang.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/En-au-A-gang.ogg/En-au-A-gang.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-au-A-gang.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "A-gang"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.