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Mountie¹

Rhymes with -aʊnti

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From mounted + -ie.

noun Mounties

  1. Canada, informal A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 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 V

    Similar: Queen's cowboy, gravel road cop

  2. Canada, historical, informal A member of the North West Mounted Police
  3. US, informal A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.

mountie²

noun mounties

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Mountie

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@misc{mountie_2026,
  title = {mountie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mountie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}