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Tonton Macoute (iou)



Tonton Macoute noun. Pl. -s -s (pronounced same). M20.
[Haitian French, said to allude to an ogre of folk-tales.]
A member of a militia formed in 1961 by President F. Duvalier of Haiti, notorious for its brutal and arbitrary behaviour and disbanded in 1986.