ranger
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈreɪndʒər/
- US
:
comando
- The Army ranger led a surprise attack against enemy forces at dawn.
- Army Rangers
- U.S. Army Rangers
He's him and his, his Ranger buddy in the Q course.
- He's him and his, his Ranger buddy in the Q course.
- Quite frankly, the, the Army Rangers dealt with this.
- I was obsessed with the the Rangers from Black Hawk Down.
- And so I just started observing, you know, teams of Rangers sleeping in the dirt.
- I was a Ranger company commander.
- Now we've, we talk quite often about training women to be Rangers or, you know, to, to take this role.
- Well, I I've done work with the Seals and dev group and it's the same for the Rangers, the same for for Recon Marine Greekon.
- But we've, we've funded many Rangers, SF and, and Delta guys.
- So was supposed to do, you know, how was it leaving Rangers?
- So it gets people killed, maybe the hostage, maybe the tarp may maybe Rangers or whomever else is there.
- But there we had the first cadet girl ever going through this school with a bunch of fucking Ranger bat boys.
Examples
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I completed that training and officially became a 29th Ranger, and returned to England.
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I went through Army Ranger School as honor man.
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Now, I was an army ranger back in the day, so I knew I could exist at one with nature.
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I was a Ranger company commander.
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But to advance through Ranger School, you need to pass three tests.
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It's what army rangers do.
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What did you find more difficult, Ranger School or RASP?
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The truth is I'm a former army ranger who now works for secret operations for a us intelligence agency that may or may not or may be the CIA.
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75th Ranger Regiment, sir.
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Captain Bishop applied for weapons for the Rangers to protect the citizens from anticipated hostilities of the Cherokee Indians.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
70
7.2
A soldier trained to make quick surprise attacks behind enemy lines
59
3.4
A very well trained military group that carries out secret or dangerous missions
22
5.1
A soldier in the United States Army trained for secret, dangerous missions
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4.4
Highly trained soldiers who do secret, dangerous missions for the United States Army
A group of soldiers in the US Army trained for difficult, dangerous missions
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ranger comes from the verb range, which once meant 'to roam' or 'move over an area'. That's why military rangers are named for moving quickly across land and working deep behind enemy lines.