paratroop
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of paratroop
First recorded in 1935–40; back formation from paratrooper
Example Sentences
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Now 75, he put on the blue-striped jersey and sky-blue beret of the Soviet paratroop unit in which he served and drove his electric mobility cart through the occupied southern city of Kherson collecting donations.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2022
Pavel S. Grachev, the defense minister, stated on television that the armed forces could have taken control of Chechnya with “one paratroop regiment in a couple of hours.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
There, it and other flying military transports are expected to drop paratroop re-enactors along the French coast at Normandy.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2019
I followed a British paratroop column I'd run into on the road, waiting to enter the city.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2013
His dozen-odd UN regulars and Turkish partisans had done their best to simulate a paratroop attack in force.
From Hunter Patrol by Piper, H. Beam
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