1. troop - Noun
2. troop - Verb
3. Troop - Proper noun
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.
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.
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television. Gerald Durrell
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. Norm Coleman
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. Robert Reich
And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's. Percy Bysshe Shelley
You hear that boy laughingyou think he's all fun But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. Peter Agre