Usually means: Attempt to blow up Parliament.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gunpowder Plot)

noun:  (British, historical) A failed conspiracy, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.

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