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trouper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trouper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ And so out go the old troupers and in come the fresh-faced kids.
▪ They were all old troupers and knew the importance of entering on a high note.
▪ What good old troupers they are!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eric was a real trouper, helping his mother when he could.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so out go the old troupers and in come the fresh-faced kids.
▪ But Maisie proved to be a real trouper - just like her mum.
▪ But we troupers just go on and on.
▪ She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations.
▪ She went through all the rituals like a trouper.
▪ They were all old troupers and knew the importance of entering on a high note.
▪ What good old troupers they are!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trouper

1890, "actor or performer in a troupe," from troupe (n.) + -er (1). Transferred sense of "reliable, uncomplaining person" [OED] is attested by 1942, American English.

Wiktionary
trouper

n. 1 A member of a theatrical company (a troupe). 2 A veteran performer. 3 A reliable, hard-working person; usually (term trooper English).

WordNet
trouper

  1. n. a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working

  2. an actor who travels around the country presenting plays [syn: barnstormer, playactor, play-actor]

Usage examples of "trouper".

Harry was wringing his hands and shouting warnings from the sidelines, and the oversized trouper, Tor, had two of the other townies by their collars.

He strode past loitering townies along the midway and entered the pad room where the troupers dressed and prepared for their entrance.

Townies often accused troupers of double-dealing, but the townies were just as good at playing false.

Lopez gave us coffee and we sat around and kidded Chango about what a brave little trouper he was.

Tim, in that the other troupers were all nicer to each other just for having Pavlo Smodlaka around to abhor.

Most of the troupers had chores or practicing to occupy their off-time, but some of them ambled up Loudoun Street to have a look at Winchester.

Strait of Gibraltar, and that raised the spirits of all the troupers and all but the mossiest shellbacks among the crew.

So the troupers and crew alike worked two shows every day, seven days a week.

You that our friend and fellow trouper Florian has made his teardown, now just.

Harry was wringing his hands and shouting warnings from the sidelines, and the oversized trouper, Tor, had two of the other townies by their collars.

He strode past loitering townies along the midway and entered the pad room where the troupers dressed and prepared for their entrance.

Sterling might be portraying the Troupers this way in order to expose the elitism at the heart of hackerdom and abjure it.

Emma had congratulated herself, had admitted that they had been real troupers indeed.

A Trouper who happened to have money, and she'd never met anyone as resolutely antimoney as the Storm Troupe.

All the troupers had heard it played on balalaikas in restaurants and hotel dining rooms, and Boom-Boom Beck was scoring a version for his windjammers to play.