Prosecutors broke up a Bronx drug gang that oddly mixed antique guns with text messages and social media to operate its violent, lucrative business, officials said today.

Seventeen members of the “Dub City” crew were named in a 35-count indictment that includes conspiracy, assault, menacing, reckless endangerment, criminal firearms sales, weapon possessions, drug sales and drug possession, authorities said.

Dub City hoodlums have been feuding with two rival gangs, one of them over the fatal shooting of one its members in April 2011.

There have been 14 retaliatory shootings and three assaults directly connected to that 18-month-old slaying.

Dub City — based between East 175th Street and East 177th Street from Walton Avenue to Jerome Avenue — made particularly good use of technology to carry out crimes, according to the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

They allegedly developed a coded language so they could pass along instructions via text and social media.

Words such as “grips,” “slammers” and “jackies” were code for guns, while “situation,” “jacking” and “clapping” were used to refer to shootings.

Other coded words included “come up” or “bum up” [committing robberies] and “yankee” [narcotics]. Gang loyalty could allegedly be spelled out with “Dub City for Life,” “DC4L” and “Dub or Die.”

Other phrases referred to Dub City members’ relationship with their rivals, such as “280 killer” or “280K” for short.

While this coded language might seem new and advanced, it’s actually the new norm for street hoodlums, cops said.

“We really dug in their text messages and their social networking connections.

We used a lot of Facebook, Hoodup [a social networking site],” said Inspector Kevin Catalina, commanding officer of the 44th Precinct station house in The Bronx.

“They discussed everything from actual shootings to dealing drugs. That’s the way new generations of criminals talk to each other, through text messages and social media.”

Much of the recent violence by the gang can be tagged back to the slaying of Dub City member Dontae “Tay” Murray.

Dub City members believed that Murray was killed by a member of “280,” which operates between East 167th Street and East 170th Street from Morris Avenue to Clay Avenue, officials said.

Dub City has a long-standing rivalry with the gang “WTG,” which operates between East 170th Street and East 174th Street from Grand Concourse to Jerome Avenue.

Authorities confiscated 10 guns from the Dub City crew, including two antiques — a .32-caliber Smith & Wesson that dates back to the 1880s and a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson that could be 80 years old, authorities said.

“This is like the gang who couldn’t shoot straight; they are not gun aficionados,” said firearms instructor and use-of-force expert, Kenneth Cooper.

Despite the oddity of antiques or not, the guns were no less lethal.

“They work, they all work,” said one law-enforcement official.

Another law enforcement source said the gang had trouble securing newer firearms so they had to stick with what they had.

“They go through guns a lot and it’s hard to purchase them so they have to hang on to whatever they get,” said the official. “This is a very serious case with very serious charge.”

Several of the indicted, alleged gangsters were arraigned in Manhattan this afternoon and evening, including Baheem “Bah” Teichera, one of the accused ring leaders.

Teichera, 21, appeared in court with a t-shirt that read “Billionaire Club.”

Additional reporting by Jamie Schram and David K. Li