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paratrooper
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Wikipedia
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The Paratrooper , also known as the "Parachute Ride" or "Umbrella Ride", is a type of fairground ride based on the seats suspended below a wheel which rotates at an oblique angle. The seats are free to rock sideways and swing out under centrifugal force ...
WordNet
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n. a soldier in the paratroops [syn: para ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also patron of battle, the dead, grocers, paratroopers, police officers, and radiologists. ▪ As a young paratrooper he had fought in the north against the Kurdish rebels. ▪ I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachute from aircraft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1941, from parachute + trooper . The collective noun paratroops is first recorded 1940. Earliest reference is to the German invaders who were expected to drop on England.
Usage examples of paratrooper.
South Atlantic in 1982, of 15,000 Argentinian troops and commandoes surrendering to a couple of hundred British paratroopers.
Stealthily, Brooks unlatched the door handle and he and Rollins executed paratrooper drops onto the spiky grass.
She, her cameraman Marc Renard, soundman Jean Carron and producer Sharon Levy, along with Marshals Sergey Levorst of Russia and Chu Feng of China, Generals Erton of France, Trayner of the United States and a French paratrooper security detail were all lost on Barwhon 5 .
With that in mind, Taylor ordered Barnowsky to post men with their dogs around our camp and capture any Paratroopers that tried to invade.
Esther Koenigsberg Bengigi, an American-born psychologist who immigrated to Israel in the late 1970s and married an Israeli paratrooper, once remarked to me that the Lebanon invasion actually changed her feelings toward Israel more than toward the Arabs.
In November 1953, French paratroopers occupied Dien Bien Phu in northwestern Vietnam, ten miles from the Laotian border.
I tried to shout that I was wearing ankle-high Reebok Moonwalkers, and that they are stouter even than paratrooper boots.
Bunkers and houses were taken two or three times as one paratroop platoon after another fought its way through the breach and the Jordanians moved back through the trenches into the houses, which came to have names of their own for the paratroopers: the house of the burning roof, the house with the pillars, the house of the yard.
But the parachutes that he manufactured right here in Tuscola were strapped to the backs of every paratrooper who ventured into the skies of France on that fateful day.
He a retired Strategos, a paratrooper four times decorated, while her military service had been with the Security Directorate.
Draka paratroopers dashing about, parasails still banking in, color-coded lights flashing.
And so before he sent in the paratroopers, President Johnson sent in Cyrus Vance to assess the situation.
By early Tuesday morning the paratroopers were moving in to quell the disturbance.
Likewise, the federal troops, the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne and 101st, are battle-hardened veterans who know to use appropriate force.
The sky blossomed with chutes, the Russo-Asian paratroopers firing even as they descended.