MGB

American  

1. the Ministry of State Security in the U.S.S.R. that functioned as the government's secret-police organization from 1946–53.

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MGB British  

abbreviation

1. Ministry of State Security; the Soviet secret police from 1946 to 1954

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Etymology

Origin of MGB

< Russian, for Ministérstvo gosudárstvennoĭ bezopásnosti

Example Sentences

Just after midnight on May 30, he left a party in his MGB sports car.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not a big one, but you didn’t need a big one back then to buy a car like that: a zippy little two-liter, five-speed convertible that looks like an MGB but — pedants will tell you — actually predates that British model.

From Washington Post

Even when the car was running well — my Datsun was always more reliable than the MGB I once owned — driving it around Washington was a white-knuckle experience.

From Washington Post

Speaking of vintage cars, John Huber of Williamsburg, Va., owns one, a 1963 MGB.

From Washington Post

Laurie Lawson shows his Free State pride on the hard top of his 1967 MGB.

From Washington Post