"starlight tour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: starlight tours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} starlight tour (plural starlight tours)
  1. (Canada, euphemistic) A practice in which Saskatoon police drove Aboriginal people out of the city and left them to freeze. Wikipedia link: Saskatoon freezing deaths Tags: Canada, euphemistic
    Sense id: en-starlight_tour-en-noun-FmFDedy1 Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

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