ABU SAYYAF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Abu Sayyaf mean? 

• ABU SAYYAF (noun)
  The noun ABU SAYYAF has 1 sense:

1. a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping

  Familiarity information: ABU SAYYAF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABU SAYYAF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Abu Sayyaf; Bearer of the Sword

Context example:

In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)