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Originally Posted by Lurker
This goes against your explanation of the word 'Crip'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips
And about the LA police coining the word 'gang', well here's what the OED has to say on that:
"Any band or company of persons who go about together or act in concert (chiefly in a bad or depreciatory sense, or associated with criminal societies). transf. a social set. colloq.
1632 in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 197 Nutt the pirate..with all his gang of varlets. 1677 R. CARY Palæol. Chron. II. I. xiii. 126, I have a question to move on the behalf of the Gang of Chronographers. 1701 Lond. Gaz. No. 3755/8 Supposed to be concerned with a Gang of House-breakers. 1782 WOLCOT (P. Pindar) Odes to R.A.'s xi. Wks. 1812 I. 38 And as a gang of thieves a bustle make With greater ease, your purse to take. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. iv. I. 505 Disgusted his friends by joining what was then generally considered as a gang of crazy heretics. 1883 Law Times LXXV. 130/2 The breaking up of gangs of criminals through the operation of long terms of penal servitude. 1945 A. KOBER Parm Me 28 The bunch is waiting at my house. I thought I'd call fa you and take you over, so that we'd meet the gang. 1955 G. FREEMAN Liberty Man I. i. 15 All the gang would be there, and she'd be ever so proud of him."
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I don't give a fuck what Wikipedia said. and in regards to your etymology lesson, I meant in regards to street gangs, not the english word itself. good try though, you almost moted me
