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Gestapo

//ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ// name, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The secret police of Nazi Germany. Nazism, historical

    "Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence."

  2. 2
    Any militant oppressive force or group. broadly, derogatory, informal

    "Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda."

Noun
  1. 1
    the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods wordnet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).

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