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noun
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.  Synonyms: Secret Service, United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS.
2.
Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps.  Synonym: Schutzstaffel.






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"Ss" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the three lights, "I am he that liveth and was dead, and, behold, I am alive for evermore." Beneath are three square compartments, representing (1) three women, (2) three soldiers, (3) the apostles SS. John and Peter at the sepulchre, with the inscription "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" and again, below all, "To the glory of God, and in loving memory of Salome Fox, who died June 26, 1883, aged 65." ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... "Ss! Wait a minute!" They were in the very thick of it when the bull stopped them, holding up his hand. "What's ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield

... triple-eyed, according to merit. A few years later, his son married the sister of the Emperor; and a few years later still, he was appointed one of three feudatory princes, his rule extending over the huge provinces of Yuennan and Ss{u}ch'uan. There we shall meet ...
— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles

... seemed to make vigorous progress. Augustine built a monastery at Canterbury, where AEthelberht founded a new church to SS. Peter and Paul, to be a sort of Westminster Abbey for the tombs of all future Kentish kings and archbishops. He also restored an old Roman church in the city. The pope sent him sacramental vessels, altar cloths, ornaments, relics, and, above all, ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen

... begins murdering Milton Wellings; and I'll tell you all about it. S-s-ss! That woman's voice always reminds me of an Underground train coming into Earl's Court with the brakes on. Now listen. It is really ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling


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