green-ink brigade

English

Proper noun

green-ink brigade

  1. A collective term for people who write letters (to politicians, newspaper editors, etc.) expressing eccentric views often characterized by prolixity, capital letters and underlining, sometimes written in long hand and stereotypically, but not necessarily actually, written in green ink.

References

Michael Quinion (accessed 24 April 2012), “Green-ink letter”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

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