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dirty war meaning and definition
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Definition of dirty war (noun)
- an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims
- "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet