definitions

swear like a trooper

Freely utter profanity or obscenity, as in The teacher was shocked when she heard one of the fathers begin to swear like a trooper. The troopers in this term were the cavalry, who were singled out for their swearing from the early 1700s on.

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Nearby words

swear, swear at, swear by, swear in, swear jar, swear like a trooper, swear off, swear on a stack of bibles, swear out, swear to, swearing-in
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