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If I want to construct a phrase meaning "people who teamed up to engage in some specific activity" (in my case, illegal activity), what should I choose as a modifier: a word for the activity or a word denoting a member of that group?

For example, 'racketeering gang' (or 'racket gang') or 'racketeer gang'? I already asked a similar question, but, for some reason, nobody answered it

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  • There's another way of boosting the question. Offer some bounty. It happens in some cases that the question does not attract any attention.
    – Maulik V
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 7:10
  • I answered it there.
    – Maulik V
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 7:17
  • It could be either. "racketeering gang" has more use than "rackteer gang", but "biker gang" or "bike gang" and not "biking gang". Also a lot of times the idiomatic phrase has a possessive: "steamfitter's union". "liar's club", etc.
    – BadZen
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 17:22
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    Does this answer your question? Which modifier should I choose 'bootleg/bootlegging/bootlegger wars'?
    – Astralbee
    Commented Dec 9, 2019 at 15:01

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