Abwehr
noun
Ab·wehr ˈäp-ˌver 
: an organization responsible for military intelligence in Germany from 1921 to 1944
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German, literally, "repulsion, fending off, defense (alluding to the organization's counterintelligence function)," noun derivative of abwehren "to fend off, parry, defend," from ab- "down, from" (going back to Old High German ab, aba, preposition) + wehren "to defend, resist," going back to Old High German werien, werren
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
- the inside dope
- the inside scoop
- the inside skinny
- the inside track
- the instant
- the instant (that)
- the instant that
- the insured
- the intellectually disabled
- the Internal Revenue Service
- the international date line
- the Internet
- the interrogative
- the Iron Age
- the Iron Curtain
- the Japanese
- the javelin
- the jaws of death
- the jaws of defeat
- the jet set
- the jig is up
- the jitters
- the joint
- the joke is on someone
- the jury is out