(British, colloquial) An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
(British, colloquial) An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
A vast minefield trapped Ukrainian troops for weeks as infantry sappers slowly cleared an assault route on foot.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
(military, US) A civilian in a war zone who performs the tasks of an armed soldier under the Geneva Convention.
A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
(US, military, historical) A non-commissioned staff officer of a cavalry regiment.
A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
Sapper means: A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.. It is military jargon and mostly appears in service contexts, war fiction, or among veterans and their families. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour.
sapper means: A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a. Register: informal, military jargon. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
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