death squad

1. 1.

   a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)

   Broaderhit squad

Questions about death squad

What does death squad mean?

death squad means "a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)".

Is death squad a common word?

death squad is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.