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ˈstorm-troops, n. pl.
Also storm troops.
[tr. G. sturmtruppen.]
1. a. = shock troops s.v. shock n.3 8 b. Also fig.
1917Punch 27 June 409/3 Special ‘storm troops’—men picked for their youth, vigour and daring, to carry out counter-attacks—are now a feature of the German Armies. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment ix. 125 Canadians and Australians..were the ‘storm troops’, the men who had to be sent for to do the tough jobs. 1924J. Ross Years of My Pilgrimage xxx. 283, I had heard from my friend, Sir Henry Wilson, F.M., that the use of storm troops was an extravagant way of utilizing men. 1933J. Buchan Prince of Captivity iii. i. 274 They were violent German nationalists..true storm-troops, ready for any forlorn hope and prepared to use any means however devilish. 1943C. Day Lewis Word over All 42 Spent as storm-troops after defeat or triumph, Deeply indifferent. 1973Black Panther 11 Aug. 8/3 Tommassi said he was offered $5,000 to use his storm troops as registrars.
b. spec. The troops of the Nazi Sturmabteilung.
1923Times 15 Jan. 10/4 Bands of ‘storm troops’ paraded the streets, singing the Fascist war songs. 1933Granta 26 Apr. 370/1 We believe that only now has come the time to see these issues in themselves, out of the context of cruelty and outrage which Herr Hitler's storm⁓troops created for them. 1954B. & R. North tr. M. Duverger's Pol. Parties i. i. 36 In the case of the National Socialist Storm Troops the initial element was the squad (schar). 1982T. Keneally Schindler's Ark xxxiii. 344 An influential officer in the S.A. (the Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troops).
2. sing.
a. A branch or detachment of storm troops.
1935[see Nazi a.]. 1938J. Cary Castle Corner 483 A soldier picked by lot for the storm troop.
b. attrib.
1939S. Spender tr. E. Toller's Pastor Hall i. 14 Go and ask the Stormtroop Leader to come in. 1958Times 3 Sept. 11/3 The outbreaks will have served a useful purpose if they oblige the public to understand that the Storm Troop mentality exists in England, too. 1981Listener 2 July 7/1 Röhm..was jailed on 29 June [1934] by a worried Heines, and other storm-troop leaders..were due to arrive the next day.
Hence ˈstorm-troop v. intr., to behave in an aggressive manner like storm-troops; so ˈstorm-trooping ppl. a.
1960News Chron. 5 Jan. 4/5 The storm-trooping bird⁓brains of Notting Hill. 1974Times 10 May 22/6 The National Union of Students goes storm-trooping about the country's universities suppressing..freedom of speech. 1977Sounds 9 July 31/3 This is the nucleus of the band, who charge in with a stormtroopin' instrumental romp through the Byrds ‘Eight Miles High’. |