Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun red_brigades

1 sense of red brigades

Sense 1
Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR -- (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)