A crew comprises a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. The word has particular nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the title "Crewman" and as well as "Crewmember".

The first use of the term 'crew' in popular culture was to describe groups of organised, white punks in the 1980's. These punk crews would socialise, drink, attend punk shows and occasionally commit acts of violence together. Some punk crews lived in squats together. Punk crews are now almost non-existant, possibly due to the influence of ska and reggae music on modern punk, mostly removing the call to random hatred and violence of innocent people and therefore negating the need to form violent crews. Some still exist, but most do not operate as punk crews once did, and now simply identify themselves as a group of friends that are as close as brothers.

Occasionally, a crew may refer to a graffiti group / group of gangsters, sometimes, but not necessarily involved in some illicit activity (Prostitution, weapon handling, narcotics, fake IDs, etc.). Sometimes the crew is based on a common interest such as cars, or forms a neighborhood sports team, with a superficial resemblance to a street gang involved with crime.

Other uses of the term

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• For a specific sporting usage, see sport rowing.
• The word "crew" may also refer to a stage crew, which are the stage hands at such events as plays or any type of show related to a theater or theatrical production.

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http://twitpic.com/nbi5a - more crews out here
LetitiaWalker (Letitia Walker) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:04:53 -0000
http://twitpic.com/nbi5a - more crews out here
Local - Silviculture association hosts training for crews working with light trucks http://bit.ly/3gNI0r
pgcitizen (PrinceGeorge Citizen) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:04:38 -0000
Local - Silviculture association hosts training for crews working with light trucks http://bit.ly/3gNI0r
Great posts at Crews.tv forum about Sony HD, ARRI Film, and Canon 5D MKII camera shots http://bit.ly/3Om0yf @crewstv
VisionWrangler (Vision Wrangler) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:04:19 -0000
Great posts at Crews.tv forum about Sony HD, ARRI Film, and Canon 5D MKII camera shots http://bit.ly/3Om0yf @crewstv
@carlazanoni Items discussed, Film crews taking parking spaces,bed bugs, cell towers, cabs loitering around, Noise from clubs on Broadway
myurbandecay (MyUrbanDecay) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03:35 -0000
@carlazanoni Items discussed, Film crews taking parking spaces,bed bugs, cell towers, cabs loitering around, Noise from clubs on Broadway
Do your medical crews “improvise” methods of securing equipment? Do you have standardized procedures and appropriate tie down equipment?
VisionZero (Vision Zero) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:59 -0000
Do your medical crews “improvise” methods of securing equipment? Do you have standardized procedures and appropriate tie down equipment?
Follow This Amazing Bieber Crews...~~~>@weluvJBieber @thebiebercreww @TeamBieber13
Bieber_Project (The JB project:)) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:55:48 -0000
Follow This Amazing Bieber Crews...~~~>@weluvJBieber @thebiebercreww @TeamBieber13

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