[ UK /tɹˈuːpɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹupɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a soldier mounted on horseback
    a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount
  2. a soldier in a motorized army unit
  3. a state police officer
  4. a mounted police officer
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How To Use trooper In A Sentence

  • General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.
  • S'sahr barked an order and there were groans, but the troopers spread out keeping eyes open for any traces or tracks.
  • Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy. Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
  • Initially a driver and radio operator, he became a paratrooper and later served in Palestine.
  • Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
  • Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • From x-General Colin Powell to a relative of a recent TPM poster, who had to get basic tools sent by the family because our troops in Iraq can't even get that, there isno trooper supported by the Bush administration. Poll: 70% Think Bush Has Let Iraq Veterans Down
  • And there are starship troopers-like Insects, that have infested the northmost part of the Fourlands (and have come from one of the parallel worlds). Dusk Before the Dawn » 2007 » June
  • And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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