from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
SS
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}]