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harouche

An old Colonial Service word, defined roughly as "a general process of bureaucratic disturbance, confusion, fear, suspicion and agitation, usually involving the search for the guilty and the punishment of the innocent, initiated by the nabob at the apex of the administrative pyramid in reaction to the incompetence or political incorrectness of an underling or underlings".
They gathered together to run the harouche.
by penguinlost July 21, 2017
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