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FOOTSLOGGER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fights on foot with small arms

Synonyms:

foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("footslogger" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "footslogger"):

fusilier ((formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket)

grenade thrower; grenadier (an infantryman equipped with grenades)

doughboy (an American infantryman in World War I)

musketeer (a foot soldier armed with a musket)

Derivation:

footslog (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

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