American gathers most of Serb people like William Burroughs (5)
I believe the answer is:
users
'american gathers most of serb people like william burroughs' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'american gathers most of serb' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'US' (abbreviation for United States).
'gathers' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'serb' with its final letter taken away is 'ser'.
'us' enclosing 'ser' is 'USERS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for users that I've seen before include "subscribers" , "Drug addicts" , "Customers" , "Ruses for employers" , "People with a drug habit" .)