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Mounties

Mounties

5 4.9
Police officers who work for Canada's national police force
  • noun
  • Canadian
: Montados
  • The Royal Canadian Mounties?
  • Canadian Mounties
  • Royal Canadian Mounties
  • two Mounties

So these truckers are are like a mighty tidal wave and they're they're stymieing the Mounties and other police.

Examples

  • What about the Mounties?

    The Road to Christmas (2006)

  • Give it up for Art Tebbel and the Mounties!

    Veronica Mars (2014)

  • I can get a job with the Mounties.

    Badlands (1974)

  • - So, you guys are Mounties?

    Narrow Margin (1990)

  • DRIVER 1: Not bad driving for a couple of Mounties!

    Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

  • Hey, anyone wanna take a call from the Canadian Mounties?

    Changeling (2008)

  • "It's what the Mounties asked us to watch for, Murdock."

    Fiction book (1997)

  • It was the Mounties' fifth shutout of the season.

    Blog text (22)

  • Sergeant Preston of the Mounties arrested felons in the frozen north just as Sam Spade tracked down wrongdoers in San Francisco.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The Mounties are known for their iconic red uniforms and wide-brimmed hats.

Synonyms

RCMP
vsMounties
  • Canadian
8 4.2

A national police force in Canada

refers to the individual officers who are members of the organization

Surface Forms

Mounties plural
Mountie singular

Morphology

Mounties = Mountie (semi-transparent) = mount + ie + s

The plural -s is a regular and fully transparent inflection of the noun 'Mountie'.

Etymology

Mounties comes from the word mounted, which means 'on a horse'. It began as the name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who rode horses across the country, so Mounties now means Canada's national police force.