urban guerrilla

American  

noun

1. a member of any underground political group engaged in terrorism or violence in urban areas, especially during the 1970s.

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urban guerrilla British  

noun

1. a guerrilla who operates in a town or city, engaging in terrorism, kidnapping, etc

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Etymology

Origin of urban guerrilla

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Shamkhani was an urban guerrilla during the 1979 Islamic Revolution and commanded several successful military operations during Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s as well.

From Washington Times • May 22, 2023

Daniel Ortega, then the Sandinistas’ revolutionary young leader, was imprisoned and jailed for four months as an urban guerrilla fighting for the opposition party.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Petro was a member of the 19th of April Movement, or M-19, a political urban guerrilla that later demobilized, reached a peace agreement with the government and became a political party.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2022

President Dilma Rousseff is a former urban guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during the military dictatorship.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2014

Back then when Bodega was a teenager, the Young Lords were an urban guerrilla group that had its origins in Chicago, but they made all their noise in El Barrio.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez