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noun

Troop n.

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. "That which should accompany old age As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."

Soldiers, collectively; an army; now generally used in the plural. "Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars." "His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines."

(Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

(Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

See Boy scout, above.

verb

Troop v. t.

To troop the colors or To troop the colours (Mil.), in the British army, to perform a ceremony consisting essentially in carrying the colors, accompanied by the band and escort, slowly before the troops drawn up in single file and usually in a hollow square, as in London on the sovereign's birthday.

Troop v. i. (past & past part. trooped; pres. part. trooping)

To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. "Armies... troop to their standard."

To march on; to go forward in haste. "Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men."

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Etymology of 'Troop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Troop" Quotes from Famous Books

... thoroughfares which the windows of the shops that thrive, owl-like, at night still made brilliant; down the long avenue of trim-clipped trees whereunder time-defying lovers still sat whispering; past the long garden wall, startling as they crossed the road a troop of horses browsing for fallen figs; along the path that winds, water-lapped, under the hollowed rocks that shelter nightly forlorn outcasts of Sydney. She saw it all as they passed along and she did not ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... as the news of this strange insurrection reached Jamestown, Chicheley dispatched Colonel Kemp to Gloucester with directions to muster the militia and to restore order by force of arms. This officer, with a troop of horse, fell upon one party of plant-cutters, and captured twenty-two of their number. "Two of the principal and incorrigible rogues" he held for trial, but "the rest submitting and giving assurances of their quiet and peacable ...

— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... headlong course, the more rapidly did they pursue their career, so that there appeared every prospect of our becoming the first, instead of the last, among the company. But when the enemy saw such a determined troop advancing to oppose them, they hurried off without awaiting our onset, and left us masters of the field. So we returned in triumph to our old course; when suddenly a wild boar, with its hopeful family, rushed across our path. Away we all ...

— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer

... own people and addressed them. Having spoken he prayed to God with clasped hands, when there appeared a cloud in which Saint Peter appeared and spoke to the Patriarch.—500 cavalry were sent forward by the Patriarch to hinder or check the rush of the enemy. In the foremost troop Francesco the son of Niccolo Piccinino [24] was the first to attack the bridge which was held by the Patriarch and the Florentines. Beyond the bridge to his left he sent forward some infantry to engage ours, who drove them ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... started out. They returned nearly scared to death, rushing into camp like madmen, pursued by a troop of hideous monsters all brandishing clubs as big as oak trees, and making the most awful noises you can ...

— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch

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