From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishGestapoGe‧sta‧po /ɡeˈstɑːpəʊ $ -poʊ/ noun → the Gestapo
Examples from the Corpus
Gestapo• It's a Gestapo Officer's silk handkerchief.• His companions took extreme precautions against being followed: the place, they said, was alive with Abwehr and Gestapo men.• Then the f - ing Gestapo picked us up.• She knew what that meant. Gestapo.• Two impassive cops in shiny black raincoats levelled guns like the Gestapo rehearsing for a massacre.• The man sitting next to her grandmother wore the distinctive sharp-peaked cap of the Gestapo and Peach froze with horror.• There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo.• The Gestapo captain had checked the papers of the two truck-drivers and found them in order.Origin Gestapo (1900-2000) German geheime staatspolizei “secret state police” 