Gestapo

Proper noun

the Gestapo

1. (Nazism, historical) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
   • Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227
2. (broadly, derogatory, informal) Any militant oppressive force or group.
   • Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230
   • One of those injured by the immigration Gestapo spoke to WSWS reporter Kimie Saito, his head wrapped in white bandages stained with blood.2025 June 7, Jacob Crosse, “Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids”, in World Socialist Web Site, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025