Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soldier who fights on foot; an infantry trooper.
- n. One who performs necessary but basic, often mundane tasks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A soldier who serves on foot; an infantryman.
Wiktionary
- n. A soldier who fights on foot; an infantryman
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a soldier who serves on foot.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fights on foot with small arms
- n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
Examples
“Each Macedonian foot soldier held his eighteen-foot sarissa before him.”
“He had the unwounded foot soldier in a headlock on one side and the officer's sword arm in a death grip on the other.”
“Of the terrorists, alleged and otherwise, cited by the CIA that KSM fingered during or after his coercive interrogations, only the Ohio truck driver Iyman Faris was an actual al-Qaeda foot soldier living freely in the United States with the serious intention to wreak havoc in America.”
“In this situation she reached the city, and enquired of a foot soldier whom she met, the way to Colonel Crayton's.”
“ "Trooper Baankis," the major said loudly, and the foot soldier snapped to an even more rigid state of attention.”
“It slammed into the megolith's chest and exploded, knocking the megolith back a step and the remaining foot soldier off his feet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foot soldier’.
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Soldiers and Sailors
Types and nicknames.
point man, legionary, man-at-arms, trooper, janissary, marine, lobsterback, redcoat, blackcoat, guardsman, billman, foot soldier and 95 more...
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Climbing the company ladder
No job is too small.
blue-collar worker, dogsbody, blackleg, drudge, white-collar worker, worker-bee, bottom dog, cog, salaryman, pen-pusher, pencil pusher, paper-pusher and 26 more...
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2013-01-18
stain, foot soldier, dangle, LOL, over the top, haxor, nix, cascade
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