stormtrooper
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See also: storm-trooper and storm trooper
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Etymology[edit]
A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”).
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Noun[edit]
stormtrooper (plural stormtroopers)
- A soldier trained in special infiltration tactics.
- 1995, Ian Drury, German Stormtrooper 1914-18, Osprey Publishing, page 4:
- Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper.
- 1996, Mark McNeilly, Sun Tzu and the Art of Business, Oxford, page 134:
- As you'll recall, the idea of the stormtrooper arose from the effort to break out of the trench warfare of World War I.
- 2001, J.S. Medaware, David Pyke, Hitler's Gift, Arcade Publishing, page 72:
- When he came upon such a scene he went up to a stormtrooper to protest.
- A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.
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Translations[edit]
a specially trained soldier
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a member of the Nazi Sturmabteilung
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