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paratroops, n. pl.|ˈpærətruːps|
[f. para-3 + troop n. 2.]
A body of soldiers dropped by parachute from aircraft flying over enemy territory. Also, in the singular, = paratrooper below. Also attrib. and fig.
1940Daily Express 16 May 3/1 Parashots—the new Local Defence Volunteers now being enrolled to deal with paratroops dropped from planes—will have uniforms of overall material. 1940N. & Q. 29 June 459/1 Parachutists dropped as troops, or to establish themselves in the enemy's country..have now been shortened to ‘paratroops’. 1940English Digest Sept. 43 Copford, East Anglia, has a nasty lesson in store for any paratroops who may land there. 1941Aeronautics Apr. 41/1 Paratroops. Better late than never! Parachute troops, originally developed by the Russians..were used by the British early in February. 1941Time 14 July 19/2 Boys and girls..were organized as paratroop detectors. 1942in Amer. Speech (1943) XVIII. 64/2 George Hopkins had made 2,300 parachute jumps..before enlisting as a paratroop. 1942Time 17 Aug. 38 He was transferred to paratroop service. 1943Illustr. London News 17 July 71 (caption), A paratroop about to land, with feet together and knees bent ready to take the shock. 1944Times 18 Mar. 4/7 A big-scale exercise with paratroops..was in progress at one point. 1946A. R. D. Fairburn in Chapman & Bennett Anthol. N.Z. Verse (1956) 106 Love's paratroops have hit the ground. 1956Nature 4 Feb. 218/1 During the Second World War he [sc. Dr. P. B. Walker] was responsible at the Ministry of Aircraft Production for the supervision of the design of gliders and paratroop aircraft. 1958Spectator 20 June 807/2 The attitude of many French paratroop officers towards General Raoul Salan. 1966New Scientist 22 Sept. 659/3 Emotional sweating..has been reported in paratroops before jumping. 1973‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal i. 18 She'd been young, she'd married a pair of paratroop wings. 1977R.A.F. News 27 Apr.–10 May 13/1 To give them a detailed refresher course on formation flying and paratroop dropping, the film company enlisted the help of the RAF.
Hence ˈparaˌtrooper, a soldier of this kind; also, an aeroplane transporting paratroops.
1941Time 4 Aug. 20/1 The paratroopers..had never been in an airplane when it was landed. 1943J. Steinbeck Once there was a War (1959) 228 The lieutenant wanted to look back to see whether any of the paratroopers were in sight. 1945Times 12 Jan. 8/3 The trial of..an American paratrooper..has been fixed for Tuesday next. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 180 There were..three distinct types of Halifax Glider Tugs and Paratroopers. 1956Flight 8 June 748/2 As a paratrooper the Beverley carries 70 soldiers. 1957Economist 5 Oct. 39/1 The dispatch of paratroopers to Little Rock was a painful blow to Americans. 1962Times 29 Mar. 15/5 For the paratroopers the sheer luck of their landing place meant..the difference between a swift regrouping or death in the air. |