'like a trooper' definitions:
Definition of 'like a trooper'
From: GCIDE
- Trooper \Troop"er\, n.
- 1. A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A state police officer; -- also called state trooper. [U. S.] [PJC]
- 3. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. Trouper. [PJC]
- like a trooper, with energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.