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Moun⋅tie

[moun-tee]
–noun Informal.
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Also, Mounty.


Origin:
1885–90; mount(ed) + -ie
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Mount·ie also Mount·y   (moun'tē)   
n.   pl. Mount·ies Informal
A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Word Origin & History

Mountie 
1914, member of the Royal Canadian (originally North West) Mounted Police, formed 1873 to keep order in the former Hudson's Bay Company lands.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
Mountie
  1. mounted policeman

  2. member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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