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ˈstorm-trooper
Also storm trooper, stormtrooper.
[f. as next + -er1.]
1. A member of the storm-troops, esp. the Nazi S.A.
1933Palestine Post 2 Apr. 4/1 The Nazi storm-troopers at noon on Friday, cleared the Berlin law courts of Jewish judges. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 101 ‘Jews,’ he said bitterly..like a storm-trooper. 1958Listener 14 Aug. 238/2 The Nazi storm-trooper. 1973R. Lacey Sir Walter Raleigh xvii. 129 The ordinary English levies..were no match for the Spanish stormtroopers. 1976J. McClure Rogue Eagle iii. 57 Formidable fellow like Vorster, ex-stormtrooper general. 1977A. Ecclestone Staircase for Silence v. 89 He did not foresee a time when..stormtroopers and commandos would appear.
2. transf. and fig.
1943C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 220, I suppose you have been reading about the birth of the storm troopers in Los Angeles, the reincarnation, or rather I should say, the continuation of the vigilantes, the uniformed Klansmen. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond ii. 23 Some of the leaflets had ‘Catholic Commandos’ printed on them, and others ‘Protestant Storm Troopers’, and Father Chantry-Pigg did not know which of these two bands of warriors he disliked most. 1958Spectator 1 Aug. 163/2 The toughest Nationalists, Plaid Cymru's Storm Troopers. 1976Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 4/1 The Gay movement in the city is concerned about a kind of creeping apathy coming over some of its former storm-troopers. 1978M. Page Pilate Plot (1979) x. 160 A place within..easy reach in which Von Hassen's storm-troopers would find their activities heavily restricted. |