Noun ss has 2 senses
  1. United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, Secret Service, SS - 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
    --1 is a kind of United States intelligence agency
    --1 is a part of
     Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury
  2. Schutzstaffel, SS - special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
    --2 is a kind of police, police force, constabulary, law
    --2 has parts: Gestapo
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