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paratroop

[ par-uh-troop ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a paratrooper or a parachute unit:

    paratroop boots.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of paratroop1

First recorded in 1935–40; back formation from paratrooper
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These include Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, owner of the English Premier League soccer club Leicester City, who was killed in 2018 in a crash outside the stadium, and Aleksandr I. Lebed, a Soviet paratroop commander who later played a crucial supporting role in the birth of Russian democracy, who died in southern Siberia in 2002.

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Ilan, a 25-year-old who serves in the reconnaissance unit of the paratroop brigade, detected sympathy and support for Hamas among civilians with whom he had come into contact.

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Russian army paratroop units were supporting Wagner by holding back Ukrainian forces on the flanks, it added.

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The statement said Russian army paratroop units were supporting the claimed advance by holding back Ukrainian forces on the flanks.

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Now 75, he put on the blue-striped jersey and sky-blue beret of the Soviet paratroop unit in which he served and drove his electric mobility cart through the occupied southern city of Kherson collecting donations.

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