Meaning of tongue troopers | Babel Free

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

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".”

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