Imperial Stormtrooper

See also: Imperial stormtrooper

English

Alternative forms

• Imperial stormtrooper (with a lowercase ‘s’)

Noun

Imperial Stormtrooper (plural Imperial Stormtroopers)

1. A member of a fictional corps of authoritarian, armor-clad soldiers in the Star Wars universe.
   • 1997, Gerrie Lim, Inside the outsider: a decade of shooting the pop culture breeeze, ^[sic] page 31:

     There'll be a little bit of the Imperial Stormtrooper thing with the boombox, along with a little bit of casual fingerpicking.

   • 2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, page 87:

     The young policeman had given up on playing the Imperial Stormtrooper and had sat down, loosening the strap on his semi-automatic so that it lay across his lap under the dismal tabloid.

   • 2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, page 66:

     The security guards in Imperial Stormtrooper body armour, better armed than any police, were not much impressed by my warrant card […]