PENTAGON GANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pentagon Gang mean? 

• PENTAGON GANG (noun)
  The noun PENTAGON GANG has 1 sense:

1. a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion

  Familiarity information: PENTAGON GANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENTAGON GANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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)