troopie

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uːpi

Noun

troopie (plural troopies)

  1. (South Africa, military, slang) A trooper; a private.
    • 1977, United States. Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa (issues 1841-1848, page 86)
      As a troopie in the army with many friends in African units, it is an embarrassment to be called on to operate with these men to find I am paid more than those whose command I am under.
    • 1983, David Caute, Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, page 187:
      A troopie with a north-of-England accent says it would be just like taking a battalion of the IRA and sticking them in with the army in Ulster.

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