Imperial Stormtrooper

plural Imperial Stormtroopers · alternative Imperial stormtrooper

1. A member of a corps of armor-clad soldiers from the Galactic Empire in the Star Wars universe.

   There'll be a little bit of the Imperial Stormtrooper thing with the boombox, along with a little bit of casual fingerpicking.

   1997, Gerrie Lim, Inside the outsider: a decade of shooting the pop culture breeeze, ^([sic]) page 31

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   The young policeman had given up on playing the Imperial Stormtrooper and had sat down, loosening the strap on his semi-automatic so that it lay across his lap under the dismal tabloid.

   2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, page 87

   The security guards in Imperial Stormtrooper body armour, better armed than any police, were not much impressed by my warrant card […]

   2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, page 66

plural Imperial stormtroopers

1. Alternative letter-case form of Imperial Stormtrooper.

   [...] the young man with the short black hair and what looked like an Imperial stormtrooper’s utility belt under his black-and-red flannel shirt.

   1999, Arthur Charles Clarke, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, The Trigger, page 431