Source : WordNet®
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}]
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}]