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parashot|ˈpærəʃɒt|
[f. para-3 + shot n.1]
In the war of 1939–45, a member of the British Home Guard whose task was to shoot down enemy parachutists. Also attrib. So ˈparashoot v. trans.; ˈparashooter.
1940Star 14 May 8/5 (caption) ‘What are you doing with that gun?’ ‘I'm practising-to-parashoot Germans!’ 1940Daily Mirror 17 May 5/2 Over a quarter of a million had applied to join Britain's parashooters by midnight on Wednesday, the War Office stated last night. 1940Parashot [see paratroops n. pl.]. 1940Star 22 May 8/2 Clubs' part in fight against parachute troops... The appeal for parashooters has brought rifle shooting into the news. Clubs are offering free instruction to applicants. 1940Economist 8 June 1005/2 Air-raids will precede invasion; and the transfer of wardens and other civil defence workers to become Ironsides and parashooters..should be stopped immediately. 1940New Yorker 29 June 46/3 A movement to provide parashots with hand grenades. 1941A. Christie N or M? vi. 85 I've got to go to a meeting about this Parashot business, raising a corps of local volunteers. 1942A. M. Low Parachutes p. x, Parashot, the word coined by the newspapers in the summer of 1940 to describe gentlemen with shotguns seeking enemy parachutists. 1944Ourselves in Wartime 129 The village men lined up..to join the local Defence Volunteers. The ‘Parashooters’ they called themselves in those days, when everyone thought the enemy might drop on us from the sky just in the same way as he had done over the Low Countries. |