stormtrooper

See also: storm-trooper and storm trooper

English

Alternative forms

• storm trooper
• storm-trooper

Etymology

A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”), equivalent to storm +‎ trooper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːmtɹuːpə/

Noun

stormtrooper (plural stormtroopers)

1. A soldier trained in special infiltration tactics.
   • 1995, Ian Drury, German Stormtrooper 1914-18, Osprey Publishing, page 4:

     Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper.

   • 1996, Mark McNeilly, Sun Tzu and the Art of Business, Oxford, page 134:

     As you'll recall, the idea of the stormtrooper arose from the effort to break out of the trench warfare of World War I.

   • 2001, J.S. Medaware, David Pyke, Hitler's Gift, Arcade Publishing, page 72:

     When he came upon such a scene he went up to a stormtrooper to protest.

2. A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.

Derived terms

• Imperial Stormtrooper

Translations

a specially trained soldier

• Bulgarian: щурмовак m (šturmovak)
• Dutch: stormtroeper m, stoottroeper m
• French: stormtrooper (fr) m
• Polish: szturmowiec (pl) m
• Russian: штурмови́к (ru) m (šturmovík)

a member of the Nazi Sturmabteilung

• Bulgarian: есесовец m (esesovec)
• French: Sturmtruppen (fr) m pl
• German: SA-Mann (de) m
• Russian: штурмови́к (ru) m (šturmovík)