gestapo

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/
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/ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/ · /ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/ · /ɡɛˈstɑpoʊ/ · /ɡəˈʃtɑpoʊ/

Definition of gestapo

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (Nazism, historical)The secret police of Nazi Germany.
    “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.”
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name

  1. (Nazism, historical)The secret police of Nazi Germany.
    “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. (broadly, derogatory, informal)Any militant oppressive force or group.
    “Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.”
    “One of those injured by the immigration Gestapo spoke to WSWS reporter Kimie Saito, his head wrapped in white bandages stained with blood.”

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Etymology

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

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