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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paratrooper
noun
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▪ 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 I wanted to be a paratrooper.
▪ In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns.
▪ On Thursday, the rioting had almost completely subsided and the paratroopers left on Saturday.
▪ Or that wicked sidearm delivery that turned right-handed hitters who liked to dive into pitches into paratroopers.
▪ When the violence increased, a request was made for federal troops and 4, 700 paratroopers arrived in Detroit that evening.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paratrooper

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.

Wiktionary
paratrooper

n. A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachute from aircraft.

WordNet
paratrooper

n. a soldier in the paratroops [syn: para]

Wikipedia
Paratrooper

Paratroopers are military parachutistsmilitary personnel trained in parachuting into an operation and usually functioning as part of an airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used on a large scale during World War II for troop distribution and transportation. Paratroopers are often used to seize strategic objectives such as airfields or bridges.

Paratrooper (ride)

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 and the wheel rotates. Invariably, the seats on the Paratrooper have an umbrella or other shaped canopy above the riders. In contrast to modern thrill rides, the Paratrooper is a ride suitable for almost all ages, except for infants and very small children.

Older Paratrooper rides have a rotating wheel which is permanently raised, which has the disadvantage that riders can only embark, two at a time, as each seat is brought to hang vertically at the lowest point of the wheel. Some models have a lower platform that's slightly raised on the ends that could permit the loading of up to three seats at a time. Most of these were made by either Bennett, Watkins or Hrubetz. The German manufacturer Heintz-Fahtze also made larger models under the name of Twister. Most of these rides require the rider to be at least 36 inches tall with an adult and over 48 to ride alone.

More modern Paratrooper rides use a pneumatic lifting piston to raise the wheel to their riding angle before spinning the seats. In its lowered position, all the seats hang vertically near the ground and can be loaded simultaneously. The above manufacturers also made these types and the height requirement to ride them remains pretty much the same.

Paratrooper (video game)

Paratrooper is a 1982 computer game, written by Greg Kuperberg and published by Orion Software. It is based on a 1981 Apple II game called Sabotage developed by Mark Allen.

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.