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

Type of: Bill [Brit, informal], boys in blue [informal], constabulary, fuzz [informal], law, Old Bill [Brit, informal], police, police force, polis [UK, dialect, informal], the fuzz [informal], United States intelligence agency

Part of: Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Homeland Security

Encyclopedia: SS