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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, SS]
2: special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps [syn: Schutzstaffel, SS]

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation 1. scilicet — used in legal documents 2. [Latin semis] one half

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: German, abbreviation for Schutzstaffel, literally, protection echelon Date: 1932 a unit of Nazis created as bodyguard to Hitler and later expanded to take charge of intelligence, central security, policing action, and the mass extermination of those they considered inferior or undesirable II. abbreviation 1. saints 2. Social Security 3. steamship

Oxford Reference Dictionary

abbr. 1 Saints. 2 steamship. 3 hist. Nazi special police force. Etymology: sense 3 f. G Schutz-Staffel