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 Synonym(s):United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, Secret Service, SS
special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps Synonym(s):Schutzstaffel, SS