TPLAC

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Noun

TPLAC (plural TPLACs)

(slang) Initialism of tin-pot little African country.
- 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):
  Jim Hacker: Oh I see! Why don't you say so at first? It's not a TPLAC at all. / Sir Humphrey Appleby: TPLAC? / Jim Hacker: Tin-pot little African country (laugh track).
- 1993 May 28, Mr. S. Carty, “Tedium”, in rec.sport.soccer‎ (Usenet):
  By the way I agree with you completly, plus it would be boring winning the wc every 4 years with a combined brit team, this way all the TPLACS etc think they have a chance.
- 1999 December 3, Billy Cthulu, “To all the Howard bashers.....”, in aus.politics‎ (Usenet):
  Elsewhere in this thread you expect people to believe that North Korea is left wing because its right wing dictators say it is. Apparently you also believe that all those TPLACs are all happily democratic (many have it written in their country name, don'tcha know).
- 2008 March 31, nikolai kingsley, “Anybody need a spare kidney?”, in alt.slack‎ (Usenet):
  I don't care what bix nood TPLAC you come from or how many kidneys you have to spare. LOSE THE FUCKING APOSTROPHE, son, or I'll set Robert Mugabe on your ass.

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