secret police

noun

: a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government often with terroristic methods

Examples of secret police in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two Prosecutors is perhaps his most austere film to date — controlled as tightly as the NKVD (Stalin’s secret police of the 1930s and 40s) controlled the Soviet people. —Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025

Gilroy drew upon his lifelong study of historical revolutions to inform the show’s interweaving storylines of payroll heists and gulag escapes, street riots and false flag operations, squabbling freedom fighters and pitiless secret police. —Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 May 2025

Large populations, sometimes entire cities, were uprooted, evacuated, or killed by paramilitaries, secret police, and troops. —Antony Beevor, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2025

As the line between arresting and kidnapping, official police and secret police, is blurred, we—citizen or noncitizen—are meant to be intimidated. —Viet Thanh Nguyễn, Time, 28 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for secret police

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Kids Definition

secret police

noun

: a police organization operating mostly in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government and often using methods of terrorists