Troopergate
English
proper noun
Definitions
- A 1994 controversy around allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor .
- A 2007 controversy involving New York governor , who allegedly ordered the state police to create special records of senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno's whereabouts when he traveled with police escorts in New York City.
- A 2008 controversy around allegations that Alaska governor and presidential nominee fired the state's public safety commissioner for not cooperating with her demand that he dismiss her former brother-in-law, a state trooper.
Etymology
Suffix from English trooper.
Origin
English
trooper
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
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Cognates and derived terms
- cybertrooper English
- troop English
- trooper English
- troupe French