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Shock troops   /ʃɑk trups/   Listen
Shock troops

noun
1.
Soldiers who are specially trained and armed to lead an assault.





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"Shock troops" Quotes from Famous Books



... resting from the hard fall offensive movement, the former unit at Obozerskaya, the latter just setting foot for the first time in Archangel for a ten day rest, the company having gone directly from troopship to troop train and having been "shock troops" in everyone of the successive drives at the Red ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... further, about compelling little boys to wear long curls till maturity, with the idee of blunting their finer instincts and making hellions of 'em, so's to have some dandy shock troops for the next war—well, she didn't ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson


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