guerrilla

Meanings

Noun

  • A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
  • A non-official war carried out by small independent groups; a guerrilla war.

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.

Origin

  • From Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra, coined during the Peninsular War.

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