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martinet🔊

(military) A strict disciplinarian.

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The same Aubrey deLint I'd dismissed for years as a 2-D martinet knelt gurneyside to squeeze my restrained hand and say ‘Just hang in there, Buckaroo,’ […]

(figurative) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.

A martin; a swift.

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