Lexical entry
カラーギャング
karaagyangu
Youth gangs identified by wearing uniform clothing colors, prominent in the late 1990s.
People & Social LifePure GairaigoWasei-EigoSource: English
Meaning
Groups of young hoodlums who adopted specific clothing colors (e.g., all blue or all yellow) to signify gang affiliation, notably in Ikebukuro.
- color-coded youth gang
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Evidence and Provenance
- Data source
- JMdict_english
- Revision
- JMdict.2026-04-17
- Review flags
- possible-wasei
- Active language
- English