shock troops

1. 1.

   soldiers who are specially trained and armed to lead an assault

   Broadertroop

Questions about shock troops

What does shock troops mean?

shock troops means "soldiers who are specially trained and armed to lead an assault".

Is shock troops a common word?

shock troops is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.