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Definition of Tonton Macoute in English: Tonton MacoutenounPlural Tontons Macoutes ˌtɒntɒn məˈkuːtˌtôntôn məˈko͞ot A member of a notoriously brutal militia formed by president François Duvalier of Haiti, active from 1961 to 1986. Example sentencesExamples - Franck Romain, mayor of Port-au-Prince, a leader of the Tontons Macoutes was accused of directing the attack.
- In the Haiti of 35 years ago, however, he was a terrifying figure: a torturer and member of the Tontons Macoutes, a volunteer army of henchmen and enforcers for the despotic Duvalier regimes.
- And sure enough, last week both soldiers and Tonton Macoute were indeed less visible in Port-au-Prince.
- The funeral singer's father was arrested by the Tonton Macoute.
- President Duvalier made sure the Tontons Macoutes vastly outnumbered the Haitian army, reducing the chance of a successful coup.
Origin Haitian French, apparently with reference to an ogre of folk tales. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of Tonton Macoute in US English: Tonton Macoutenounˌtôntôn məˈko͞ot A member of a notoriously brutal militia formed by president François Duvalier of Haiti, active from 1961 to 1986. Example sentencesExamples - Franck Romain, mayor of Port-au-Prince, a leader of the Tontons Macoutes was accused of directing the attack.
- In the Haiti of 35 years ago, however, he was a terrifying figure: a torturer and member of the Tontons Macoutes, a volunteer army of henchmen and enforcers for the despotic Duvalier regimes.
- President Duvalier made sure the Tontons Macoutes vastly outnumbered the Haitian army, reducing the chance of a successful coup.
- The funeral singer's father was arrested by the Tonton Macoute.
- And sure enough, last week both soldiers and Tonton Macoute were indeed less visible in Port-au-Prince.
Origin Haitian French, apparently with reference to an ogre of folk tales. |