ss -abbr

  1. scilicet used in legal documents
  2. one half

SS [,es-'es] -n

  1. a unit of Nazis created as bodyguard to Hitler and later expanded to take charge of intelligence, central security, policing action, and the mass extermination of those they considered inferior or undesirable
  2. saints
  3. Social Security
  4. steamship

SSA -abbr

  1. Social Security Administration

SSE -abbr

  1. south-southeast

SSG -abbr

  1. staff sergeant

SSI -abbr

  1. supplemental security income

SSM -abbr

  1. staff sergeant major

SSN -abbr

  1. Social Security number

ssp -abbr

  1. subspecies

SSR -abbr

  1. Soviet Socialist Republic

SSRI [,es-(,)es-(,)är-'ī] -n

  1. any of a class of antidepressants (as fluoxetine) that inhibit the inactivation of serotonin by blocking its reuptake by presynaptic neuron endings called also selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

SSS -abbr

  1. Selective Service System

SST [,es-,es-'tē] -n

  1. supersonic transport

SSW -abbr

  1. south-southwest