SS
1. special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps • Syn: Schutzstaffel • Hypernyms: police, police force, constabulary, law • Part Meronyms: Gestapo 2. the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents • Syn: United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, Secret Service • Hypernyms: United States intelligence agency • Part Holonyms: Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security
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