Usually means: Group of prisoners working together.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word chain gang:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain gang: Merriam-Webster
  2. chain gang: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chain gang: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chain gang: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chain gang: Vocabulary.com
  6. chain-gang, chain gang: Wordnik
  7. chain gang: Wiktionary
  8. chain gang: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. chain gang: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. chain gang: Dictionary.com
  11. Chain Gang (Only Fools and Horses), Chain Gang (band), Chain Gang (song), Chain Gang, Chain gang (cycling), Chain gang, The Chain Gang (radio series), The Chain Gang: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. chain gang: Rhymezone
  13. chain gang: FreeDictionary.org
  14. chain gang: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. chain gang: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. chain gang: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chain gang: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chain-gang, chain gang: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Chain Gang, chain gang: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chain gang: Sports Definitions

(Note: See chain_ganging as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chain gang)

noun:  A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
noun:  (cycling) A group of cyclists riding in a close-knit formation akin to a road race, normally for the purposes of training.

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