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noun

Grouper n. (Zool.)

(a)

One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

(b)

The tripletail (Lobotes).

(c)

In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. (Written also groper, gruper, and trooper)

Trooper n.

A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

A state police officer; also called state trooper. (U. S.)

A mounted policeman. (Australia) Note: The black troopers of Queensland are a regiment of aboriginal police, employed chiefly for dispersing wild aborigines who encroach on sheep runs.

Trouper.

like a trooper, with energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.

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"Trooper" Quotes from Famous Books

... unaddressed, and to go on with, although she did not understand one word in ten of what was being spoken, she gathered the gist of it, and this did not tend to compose her. She threw away the snaky stem of water-pipe, and gripped both hands on the trooper's sword, till the muscles stood out in ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... fell into the column to the measure of "Left... left!" "Close up!" came the company commander's voice in jaunty tones. The soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous silence and the regular ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... putting up the shutters of office, into the town rode Burnham, the famous American scout, with news of a large impi of the enemy about three miles outside Buluwayo. This necessitated action, and B.-P. was himself again. With a police-trooper as a guide he rode out to find for himself how matters stood, and, after a hard and refreshing ride, in the early dawn he was able to see the enemy. There they were on the opposite bank of the Umgusa river, their fires crackling merrily, and they themselves apparently ...

— The Story of Baden-Powell - 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' • Harold Begbie

... horse or a Kangaroo had broken it or been that way, they would have found your track fast enough, but one evening it came to an end quite suddenly, and weren't they all surprised! I heard from a Trooper's horse—(such a nice horse he was!)—that the trackers and white Humans said it was just as if you had disappeared into the sky! There was just a bit of your fur on a bush, and nothing anywhere else but a Kangaroo's trail. No ...

— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley

... long enough to see that the heaviest smoke concentrations from the unknown blast lay to the west. He swung left onto the oiled road and barreled westward. In less than a mile, he spied the flashing red light of a State trooper's car parked in the center of the road. The scene looked like a combination of the San Francisco quake and ...

— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael

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