Gestapo

Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈstɑpoʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑpoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːpəʊ

the Gestapo

1. (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:

     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.

2. (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
   • 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:

     Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.

• Gaystapo

•   Gestapo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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From German Gestapo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡestɑpo/, [ˈɡe̞s̠tɑ̝po̞]
• Rhymes: -estɑpo
• Syllabification^(key): Ges‧ta‧po

Gestapo

1. Gestapo (Nazi secret police)

• gestapo

Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.

• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈstaːpo/, [ɡeˈstaː.po], [ɡə-], [ɡɛsˈtaːpo]
• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈʃtaːpo/ (fairly rare)

• Audio:

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die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)

1. (historical, Nazism) Gestapo

• Stapo

•   Geheime Staatspolizei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

 

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Gestapo

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Gestapo f

1. Gestapo

• pogaste

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Gestapo

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛsˈtapɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -apɔ
• Syllabification: Ges‧ta‧po
• Homophone: gestapo

Gestapo n (indeclinable)

1. (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of gestapo

Indeclinable

or

• Gestapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.

Gestapo f

1. (historical) Gestapo (the secret police of the Nazi party)