Usually means: Secret police in Nazi Germany.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestapo: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gestapo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Gestapo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gestapo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gestapo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gestapo, gestapo: Wordnik
  7. the Gestapo, the gestapo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gestapo: Wiktionary
  9. Gestapo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Gestapo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Gestapo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gestapo: Dictionary.com
  13. Gestapo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gestapo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gestapo: Rhymezone
  16. Gestapo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. Gestapo: Robb: German English
  18. gestapo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gestapo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Gestapo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. gestapo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gestapo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GESTAPO: Acronym Finder
  2. gestapo: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestapo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gestapo: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gestapo)

noun:  (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
noun:  (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.

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