英和和英

発音

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

固有名詞

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.

   • 2025 June 7, Jacob Crosse, “Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids”, in World Socialist Web Site‎, archived from the original on 12 June 2025:

     One of those injured by the immigration Gestapo spoke to WSWS reporter Kimie Saito, his head wrapped in white bandages stained with blood.

派生語

• Gaystapo

Further reading

• Gestapo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• age spot, postage, potages