partisan : Idioms & Phrases

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band of partisans

  • noun an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
    Asbat al-Ansar.
WordNet

Partisan ranger

  • (Mil.), a member of a partisan corps.
Webster 1913