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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'

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"Troop" Quotes from Famous Books

... always the case in struggles of this kind, the female population were more enthusiastic in their partisanship and more pronounced in their opinions than the men; and although, upon the arrival of a troop of cavalry or a detachment of foot belonging to the other side, the master of the house would impartially offer what hospitality he was capable of, it was not difficult to perceive, by the warmth ...

— True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of Independence • G. A. Henty

... troop that strung out across the dim-lit dunes was approaching another domed shelter of heavy concrete. They crowded inside, and the bodies of the three were thrown roughly to the floor, while the red creatures made desperate haste to close the heavy door. Then ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... smiled, and he was in the most complaisant humour. I was presented to his Grace, the Duke of Grafton, whose name I had no reason to love, and invited to Wakefield Lodge. We went instead, Mr. Fox and I, to Ampthill, Lord Ossory's seat, with a merry troop. And then we had more racing; and whist and quinze and pharaoh and hazard, until I was obliged to write another draft upon Mr. Dix to settle the wails: and picquet in the travelling-chaise all the way to London. Dining at Brooks's, we encountered ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... in the valleys of Savoy, and in the capitals of Spain and France, his immortal epic was read or recited by the highest and the lowest. Fortunes were made by its sale. The famous bandit Sciarra, who with his troop of robbers had terrified the whole of Southern Italy, hearing that Tasso was at Gaeta, on his journey from Naples to Rome, sent to compliment him, and offer him, not only a free passage, but protection by the way. At Florence, whither he went at the invitation of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the whole ...

— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan

... him were in some hesitation, whether they should abide together for their own defence, or disperse and shift for themselves. But that day, being the 22d of July, they were surprised by Bruce of Earls-hall; who, having got command of Airely's troop and Strahan's dragoons (upon notice given him by Sir John Cochran of Ochiltree[175]) came furiously upon them about four o'clock in the afternoon, when lying on the east end of Airs-moss. When they saw the enemy ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

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