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tongue troopers en · NOUN
Meanings
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(derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only) Language police.
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(Canada, derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only, specifically) The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language)
2001, Robert Bothwell, A Traveller's History of Canada, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
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".
UPDATE Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"
1983, Newsweek:
Synonyms
language police