gestapo
IPA: gʌstˈɑpoʊ
Root Word: Gestapo
noun
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
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Examples of "gestapo" in Sentences
- I see the joke gestapo is out in full force today.
- The gestapo are the ones that actually done the dirty.
- Kept looking at the front door to see if the gestapo was about to break in.
- • "Arresting women because they wear an orange dress ... what kind of gestapo are you running?"
- This kind of behavior by the intolerant tolerance gestapo is going to break the back of this country.
- Never have I run into anything resembling a "gestapo" and I saw plenty of people ripping off their trademarks.
- I think you are also very unclear on the definition of "gestapo" in regards to their "busting" people as well.
- Otherwise you are arguing that the gestapo were the victims and the French Resistance the aggressor in that instance.
- Apparently in his fevered imagination the word “ensure” here means that some kind of healthcare gestapo is going to bust down the door of chronic disease sufferers and force them to get treatment.
- Oh, and in Pennsylvania where the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has been playing "gestapo" to such raw milk producers as horse and buggy Mennonites who have been doing producing real milk for generations - without the "help" of the government, thank you - the PDA has been harassing them by phone, trying to pin the salmonella outbreak on real milk.
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