trooper
Americannoun
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a mounted police officer; a police officer on horseback.
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a soldier in a cavalry that uses horses.
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null trouper a persevering, dependable person who works hard or who bravely endures adversity.
He's a real trooper, even when the going gets tough.
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a cavalry horse.
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Chiefly British. a troopship.
noun
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a soldier in a cavalry regiment
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a mounted policeman
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a state policeman
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a cavalry horse
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informal a troopship
Etymology
Origin of trooper
Example Sentences
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In one instance witnessed by a Journal reporter in July, ICE officers in Lake Worth, Fla., snapped pictures of two Guatemalan men whom a state trooper had just stopped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper on a motorcycle pulled her over anyway.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
And he assigned a state trooper to escort them.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
‘There was a lot of silliness happening with other characters; I wanted to play this as straight and real as possible,’ Lamorne Morris says of his role as a state trooper on ‘Fargo.’
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
In the album Dad’s ticket looks sort of lumpy and wrinkled because he’d crumpled it into a ball when the state trooper handed it to him.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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