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Ir⋅gun

  [ir-goon]
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–noun
a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
Related forms:
Ir⋅gun⋅ist, noun
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Irgun 
militant Zionist organization, 1946, from Mod.Heb., lit. "organization," in full Irgun Zvai Leumi "national military organization."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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