Meanings
- Canadaderogatoryinformalpluralplural onlyspecificallyThe 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".
1 more example
UPDATE Jacques Nadeau Levesque: Sending in 'the tongue troopers"
1983, Newsweek
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLanguage police.
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tongue troopers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tongue%20troopers
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