gangism

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English

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Etymology

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From gang +‎ -ism.

Noun

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gangism (uncountable)

  1. The criminal or antisocial behaviour of gangs.
    • 1935, James Wroten Woodard, Reification and Supernaturalism as Factors in Social Rigidity, page 194:
      [] our Western culture will certainly be in for individuation in its worst forms — political gangism, racketeering gangism, banker-broker gangism, rebate subterfuge, ruthlessly untruthful advertising, []
    • 1998, Joyce T. Henderson, Why African American Youth are Attracted to Non-Christian/Non-Traditional Religions and Sects, page 25:
      Everything about these youths seemed to indicate gangism. In interviewing one of the women's other children who was younger than the particular son who had come it at a later time, I asked if the brother had any gang affiliation.