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tongue troopers

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Language police.
    derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only
  2. The Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Board of the French Language)
    Canada, derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only, specifically

Equivalents

Bahasa Indonesiapolisi bahasa

Examples

“UPDATE⟳ Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"”
“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".”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

tongue-and-groove pliers tongue-boring tongue-clacker tongue-fence tongue-fencer tongue-fencing

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