shock troops

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plural noun Military.

troops especially selected, trained, and equipped for engaging in assault.

Origin of shock troops

First recorded in 1915–20

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The break-through was clean and the advance made by the endless waves of German shock-troops appalling.
Woodrow Wilson and the World War
Charles Seymour

British Dictionary definitions for shock troops

shock troops

pl n

soldiers specially trained and equipped to carry out an assault

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