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press gang

NOUN
  1. a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy

How To Use press gang In A Sentence

  • Nobody is going to press gang me into anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • Williams and his Tea Party Express gang are expelled from the Tea Party thanks to his idiotic behavior and recent writings. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Search and destroy
  • Press Gang : Convert an unskilled captive to a pirate of rather inferior quality.
  • He is quite sympathetic, even though he's a press ganger when first we meet him.
  • Then I can set myself up as a Paella man selling bowls of ricey savoury goodness to the day labourers employed / press ganged by the local authorities to clear the roads, railways harbours etc. Cheeseburger Gothic » Barnes and Noble Challenge.
  • On the way back from swimming, I mentioned that - in olden times - sailors couldn't always swim, which took us to press gangs, and Nelson's navy. Emperor Kurtzhau's Fifth Column
  • Nobody is going to press gang me into anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eric, at the time a budding saxophonist, press ganged Melanie into service as a singer in his band Adventure.
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