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.
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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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(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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