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Great Satan

noun

  1. any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Great Satan to the north is the reason they’re in Orange County, the reason that fewer than one in six of them still commutes to earn an L.A. paycheck and enjoy it in Orange County.

But others say the involvement of the US, known as the "Great Satan" in Iran, will only bolster Iran's leaders.

From BBC

Iran has been humiliated, first by Israel, now by what it has often in the past called 'the Great Satan', its term for the US.

From BBC

The ayatollahs who call Israel the Little Satan and America the Great Satan have bigger ambitions than just destroying the Jewish state.

But all in their own way saw Washington as the Great Satan and fantasized about slaying the beast.

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