What's the difference between minuteman and minutemen?
Minuteman
Definition:
(n.) A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Minuteman Project hopes to draw huge crowds to the border on 1 May 2015, which it has dubbed D-Day.
(2) Congress writes the checks.” Robert Crooks, another Arizona Minuteman, was more bullish and said Trump was already having an impact.
(3) The retiring Republican congressman had endorsed Graf's challenger, believing Graf's hard line on immigration (he's a Minuteman) would alienate too many moderates.
Minutemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Minuteman
Example Sentences:
(1) When the meeting is over one couple, who are both Minutemen, boast to me of their English heritage.
(2) However, at the end of 1985, just as they were getting more recognition following an arena tour with REM, the Minutemen ceased to exist as a band after the tragic death of frontman D Boon in a car crash.
(3) Ginn delighted in alienating hardcore punks by putting out the contrary-sounding Paranoid Time EP by the Minutemen for SST's second release in 1980.
(4) The Minutemen don't touch the immigrants, says Quasimodo, and the immigrants don't run or confront the Minutemen.
(5) "I always preferred bands like the Minutemen and Black Flag ," says McClung.
(6) A group called the Minutemen had already been founded, insisting it was their patriotic duty to protect the border themselves in the absence of state intervention.
(7) These findings are passed on to the other Minutemen who, on certain weekends, sit in the dark at the designated spots, their huge industrial lights turned off, waiting for the migrants to come their way.
(8) The Puppets' freewheeling, warbling cowpunk (at its most raw and best on the II album) and the Hüskers' psychedelic-thrash ushered in new forms of abrasiveness, while the Minutemen produced their finest record, Double Nickels on the Dime.
(9) Minutemen-like militias claim Border Patrol efforts are an Obama administration sham and that the frontier is open, a de facto welcome mat for “criminals” and “aliens”.
(10) Many of the early SST brigade gathered for the first preview screening of the Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo in San Pedro a few years ago.
(11) In the preface to the book (written in Salem after the Hawthornes had been evicted by Emerson for back rent), Hawthorne wrote with exquisite beauty and feeling of the place as a shrine of half-ruined memories and mute witnesses; not just redcoats and minutemen, but also the Indians who had occupied the land before the affray.