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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
storm-trooper

"member of the Nazi Sturmabteilung," 1933, from storm (v.) + trooper (also see Sturmabteilung). Storm-troops (1917) translates German sturmtruppen, introduced by the German military in World War I.

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storm-trooper

n. (alternative spelling of stormtrooper English)

Usage examples of "storm-trooper".

All he knew was that now, two hundred light-years from Carida, he was assigned to a detachment of storm-troopers, setting off for some forsaken planet.

He had baited the trap with enough credits to ensure Boba Fett's keen interest, first to bring about the destruction of the old Bounty Hunters Guild, and now to bring the renegade Imperial storm-trooper Trhin Voss'on't back to Kud'ar Mub'at's web, where the price that had been put on Voss'on't's head was supposedly waiting.

The boxing hall in the great complex of the Reichssportfeld was filled to capacity for the final bout in the light heavyweight division, and there were ranks of brown-uniformed storm-troopers lining each side of the aisle from the dressingrooms, forming an honour guard for the contenders as they came down to the ring.

Beneath the fiery cross the ranks of storm-troopers were massed and their polished cross belts and buckles glinted in its light and in that of the burning torches each of them held high.

Three Mekuun hoverscouts rose from nowhere to meet her, bolstered by two more squads of speeder-bike storm-troopers.