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Tans en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only) The Black and Tans, a British irregular army group operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
    • The Dawn contains two problems for its male protagonists: namely, Ireland's fight against the British forces, the RIC, and the Tans, and the patriotic commitment of the Malone family's sons. 1995, Lance Pettitt, Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation:
    • Close quarter fighting did not suit them. It does not suit the Essex or the Tans. 1948, Tom Barry, Guerilla^([sic]) Days in Ireland, published 1949:
    • Intuitively, on Bloody Sunday, the Tans recognized where their trouble lay: the Irish were playing their own game once again. 1931, John Bowyer Bell, To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sport: