Definitions for Gestapo

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Gestapo Ge·sta·po

Spelling: [guh-stah-poh; German guh- Gestapo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in Gestapo (aegopst).

Definitions for Gestapo

noun

1. the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.

adjective

1. (sometimes lowercase) of or resembling the Nazi Gestapo, especially in the brutal suppression of opposition:

Origin of Gestapo

German Ge(heime) Sta(ats)po(lizei)

Examples for Gestapo

The French police supplied the trucks; the Gestapo, the men.

You see, we hope that you two will be able to draw the Gestapo away from Jones.

You two, whether you admit it or not, are not exactly unknown to the Gestapo.

They must think that we are like the Gestapo or something like that.

All over Europe, the Gestapo orchestrated mass killings on a daily basis.

On April 25, 1941, the Gestapo moved into the building and I had to give all the keys to the Germans.

Silence is golden, but too much of it might make the Gestapo boys suspicious.

The director of the Gestapo answered only to Heinrich Himmler, and Himmler, only to the Fuhrer himself.

These numbers are placed on passports by Gestapo headquarters in Berlin or Dresden.

Still, at its largest in 1944, the Gestapo had only 31,000 agents to fulfill its grim brief across all of occupied Europe.