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public enemy

  1. a government with which one's country is at war
  2. a hardened criminal or other person who is a menace to society

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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