mountie

plural mounties

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mountie.

plural Mounties

1. CanadainformalgovernmentA member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

   1 more example

   As Jo-Anne was only 10 years old and a strange man had issued an ultimatum to her mother, the Chilliwack RCMP bypassed the routine intake protocols and upgraded the case to a child abduction investigation. Mounties immediately set up roadblocks at the major intersections leaving Chilliwack, at the Vedder Crossing neighbourhood, and on the highways leading out of the Fraser Valley.

   2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2026

   Synonyms: Queen's cowboy, gravel road cop

2. CanadahistoricalinformalgovernmentA member of the North West Mounted Police
3. USinformalgovernmentA law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.