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guerrilla
/ɡəˈɹɪlə/
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What does guerrilla mean?
noun
- A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
- A marketer who uses guerrilla marketing techniques.
- A maker of guerrilla television.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla warfare, or its principles of small independent or non-official perpetrators.
- Relating to, using, or typical of guerrilla marketing.
- Using unconventional, non-traditional, non-mainstream and often subversive practices to achieve something.
noun
- (archaic) A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.
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The brigands scattered at the signal, not in confusion, but in what was evidently a kind of guerrilla discipline.
People have called this kind of war “guerrilla warfare” and assume that by so calling it they have explained its meaning.
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That festive insect carries on a surreptitious guerrilla warfare low down.
Note has been made of the presence of Ellsworth in the Cincinnati office, and his service with the Confederate guerrilla Morgan, for whom he tapped Federal wires, read military messages, sent false ones, and did serious mischief generally.
They are impetuous, merry, and hospitable, fond of music and dancing.42 Of their warfare we are told they are “not distinguished in open warfare, but unconquerable in guerrilla warfare, and famed for defense of walled cities.”43 Such are the Basques of to-day, and many of these traits of character, we doubt not, were the same amongst the Neolithic people.