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
saints
Social Security
steamship
SSA -abbr
Social Security Administration
SSE -abbr
south-southeast
SSG -abbr
staff sergeant
SSI -abbr
supplemental security income
SSM -abbr
staff sergeant major
SSN -abbr
Social Security number
ssp -abbr
subspecies
SSR -abbr
Soviet Socialist Republic
SSRI [,es-(,)es-(,)är-'ī] -n
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