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(truːpəʳ)
Word forms: plural troopers
1. countable noun & title noun
A trooper is a soldier of low rank in the cavalry or in an armoured regiment in the army.
...a trooper from the 7th Cavalry.
'Where to, Corporal?' asked Trooper Fane respectfully.
2. countable noun
In the United States, a trooper is a police officer in a state police force.
Once long ago, he had considered becoming a state trooper.
3.  See also storm trooper

trooper in British English

(ˈtruːpə)
noun
1. 
a soldier in a cavalry regiment
2.  US and Australian
a mounted police officer
3.  US
a state police officer
4. 
a cavalry horse
5.  informal, mainly British
a troopship

trooper in American English

(ˈtrupər)
noun
1. 
an enlisted soldier in the mounted cavalry
2. 
a cavalry horse
3. 
a mounted police officer
4.  US
in the U.S., a state police officer
5.  Chiefly British
a troopship
6.  Informal
trouper (sense 3)
Word origin
troop + -er

More idioms containing
trooper

swear like a trooper

Examples of 'trooper' in a sentence
trooper

In the dark of the early morning storm troopers fired the synagogue.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
All ranks from the most junior troopers to senior officers will benefit.
The Sun (2008)
Our daughter has always been wise beyond her years and a real trooper in the face of two rather challenging brothers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Both had a martial arts background; they fought amid a moving phalanx of storm troopers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But she said: 'He is a real trooper.
The Sun (2013)

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