Usually means: Soviet secret police, early USSR.
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  1. cheka: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cheka: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cheka: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Cheka: Wordnik
  5. Cheka: Wiktionary
  6. Cheka: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. cheka: Dictionary.com
  8. Cheka: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Cheka (state constituency), Cheka: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cheka: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cheka)

noun:  (historical) The first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations, created in 1917.
noun:  An agent of this organization; a Chekist.

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