Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trooper \Troop"er\, n.
A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
A state police officer; -- also called state trooper.
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A mounted policeman. [Australia]
Note: The black troopers of Queensland are a regiment of aboriginal police, employed chiefly for dispersing wild aborigines who encroach on sheep runs.
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Trouper.
like a trooper, with energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.
WordNet
n. a state police officer [syn: trooper]
Wikipedia
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the American West of the 1950s, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from 1956 to 1959
State Trooper is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Usage examples of "state trooper".
At the time Jim Tile was new to Harney, and the Dekle boy remarked how he had never seen a chocolate state trooper before.
She took a moment to feed her cat, Sookie, and when she returned to the living room of her neat, pink-painted house, she saw a state trooper in his gray uniform and big hat painting a wide, bright white line across the broken pavement of Janders Road.
Kenner drove to the other side of the park and spoke briefly to a state trooper, whose black-and-white patrol car stood at the edge of a clearing.
And a state trooper named Andy Brazil will be at the hospital to safely escort you home.
Probably just some DUI that the state trooper was carting off to jail.
Jason asked if he could keep one of the empty shell casings out of the state trooper's revolver, and the trooper said sure.
One night the state trooper assigned to guard the governor found him creeping through a graveyard.
He recognized her as the one whom the state trooper had dropped off in the parking lot earlier that afternoon.
Thinking about the black state trooper busting his balls for no reason, and how somebody managed to pour booze in the tank without Pedro even knowing it.
It is winding down, that's what the condemned State Trooper thinks.
Eyes fixed on the window, he gave the women his account, which contained not a single period or comma, all about a reward and his being laid off and having been a state trooper for nearly but not quite ten years and a recession and a trailer that was about to be foreclosed on.
The suspects were in a van and made a clean escape after killing a state trooper.
A state trooper already had the hood of the car up and his flashlight working.
If a state trooper didn't come by and arrest him for jaywalking, he could die out there.
Arteria was interrupted by the return of the state trooper with the photograph.