BAADER-MEINHOF GANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baader-Meinhof Gang mean? 

• BAADER-MEINHOF GANG (noun)
  The noun BAADER-MEINHOF GANG has 1 sense:

1. a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977

  Familiarity information: BAADER-MEINHOF GANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAADER-MEINHOF GANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Baader-Meinhof Gang; Baader Meinhof Gang

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:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)