troopie
English
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edit- Rhymes: -uːpi
Noun
edittroopie (plural troopies)
- (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.
- 1977, United States. Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa (issues 1841-1848, page 86)