German troops specially chosen and equipped for carrying out assault operations
Word origin
[1915–20; trans. of G Sturmtruppen]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camouflage, collage, decoder, markup, neorealism
Examples of 'storm troops' in a sentence
storm troops
There was plenty for him to do, checking the deployment of his storm troops.