striped-pants
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Noun
striped-pants (plural striped-pants)
- (slang) A diplomat or civil servant.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 12:
- ‘Ring Shallow Throat,’ Craw ordered, now quite furious. ‘Ring every damned striped-pants in the Colony!’
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