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VaaS en · NOUN

Etymology

After SaaS and related terms.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Abbreviation of violence as a service (“the targeted recruitment of people to commit crime, typically via the Internet”).
    • Police believe some of the VaaS attacks have been carried out for the Iranian regime, including a hand grenade attack on the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, though other attacks are part of Foxtrot's drugs turf wars. 2026 August 2, Daniel Sandford, Duncan Walker, “Young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2026: