Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elite organization within the Nazi party that served as Hitler's personal guard and included police units and special forces, carrying out mass killings of civilians and overseeing concentration camps.
- abbreviation saints
- abbreviation same size
- abbreviation shortstop
- abbreviation Social Security
- abbreviation Song of Solomon
- abbreviation steamship
- abbreviation strong safety
- abbreviation Sunday school
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- abbreviation
Saints - initialism
Schutzstaffel - initialism
social security - initialism spousal support
- initialism
steam ship - initialism Screw Steamer - screw-driven steamship
- initialism US, Navy Sub Surface -
diesel powered attacksubmarine - initialism Silent Sound(tm)
- initialism military, rocketry NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface
missile systems developed by theSoviet Union - initialism baseball
shortstop
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gotta give the guy credit for trying to put his money where his mouth is, but like others above this seems like a service that is destined to fail as people get their claims rejected left and right because their wallet was stolen and had a SS card in it, or you filled your SS# on a form that was copied by company X and left on the table where someone stole it, or other “obvious” things.
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And because the financial imbalance in SS is biggest and growing in the out years after #75, even if you * did* truly close the 75-year gap today without such Krugman-like gimmickry, after just one year passed on the calendar making number 76 number 75, we'd have a new $100 billion funding gap again, growing every year forever.
The Budget Debate, VI, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for protective shield) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler.
SS 2002
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Tom Paulin's effusion comparing Israeli soldiers to the SS is an example of the same sort of thing.
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D11/19/2006 08:30:00 PM|W|P| Tony GOPrano|W|P|Enjoy your one term SS Harry Mitchell....can you say Sam Coppersmith?
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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One thing that wasn't covered was exactly what measurement SS is interested in.
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One thing that wasn't covered was exactly what measurement SS is interested in.
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In any event, SS is here to stay and any attempt to privatize is going to come back to the collapse last year.
Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would ‘absolutely’ abolish Social Security. 2010
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The Indische Freiwilligen Legion der Waffen-SS was formed on August 8th, 1944 when the Legion Freies Indien/Infanterie-Regiment 950 (indische) was tranfered to the control of the Waffen-SS from the Heer.
Matthew Yglesias » Zionist Organization of America Slams Obama Muslims Mention 2009
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I'm also enjoying this and it's funny Tony also mentioned Jonah Hex and Secret Six as I also read those too and are part of their own little corner (Though SS is more intergrated, and I'd also throw Warlord in here).
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