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tongue troopers

tongue troopers noun: language police.

Noun

tongue troopers pl (plural only)

  1. (derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only) Language police.
    Synonyms:
    language police
  2. (Canada, derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only, specifically) The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language)
    • UPDATE Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"1983, Newsweek
    • To enforce the law, the government established an Office de la langue française, whose inspectors were promptly dubbed "the language police" or "the tongue troopers".2001, Robert Bothwell, A Traveller's History of Canada, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

Synonyms of tongue troopers

Questions about tongue troopers

What does tongue troopers mean?
Tongue troopers means language police.
What part of speech is tongue troopers?
Tongue troopers is a noun.

Words near tongue troopers in the dictionary

  1. tongue thrust
  2. tongue thrusts
  3. tongue tie
  4. tongue ties
  5. tongue toast
  6. tongue troopers
  7. tongue twister
  8. tongue twisters
  9. tongue worm
  10. tongue worms
  11. tongue wrestle

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