Crossword-Solution: PLATOON 7 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Platoon n. Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small
square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
Platoon n. Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

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We have 44 clues for the answer “PLATOON”

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Lieutenant's command. 1 answer
1986 Best Picture 1 answer
A lieutenant's command. 1 answer
Army captain's command 1 answer
Best Picture a year after "Out of Africa" 1 answer
Best Picture of 1986 1 answer
Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam 1 answer
Best picture of 1986 (Charlie Sheen) 1 answer
It's smaller than a company 1 answer
"L.A. on top" 1 answer
Oliver Stone's Oscar winner 1986 1 answer
Oliver Stone's Vietnam film 1 answer
Oscar film: 1986 1 answer
Oscar-winner of 1986 1 answer
Troop division 1 answer
Two or more squads 1 answer
smaller unit within a company of soldiers 1 answer
Soldiers’ subdivision 1 answer
Offensive or defensive 2 answers
Sarge's charges 2 answers
1986 Oliver Stone movie 2 answers
Part of a company 2 answers
UNIT of army 2 answers
Stone work 3 answers
**Infantry unit 3 answers
Police unit 4 answers
Company division 4 answers
Army outfit 5 answers
Group of soldiers 7 answers
BEST DIRECTOR OF 1986 AND 10 answers
BEST PICTURE OF 1981 10 answers
Best Picture of 1955 10 answers
A MILITARY UNIT THAT IS A SUBDIVISION OF A COMPANY 11 answers
Troop group 15 answers
BODY of soldiers 16 answers
ARMY unit 16 answers
ARMY group 20 answers
ARMED body of men 32 answers
BODY of persons 37 answers
Military unit 38 answers
BODY of men 38 answers
Army __ 48 answers
Military group. 51 answers
DIVISION ___ 86 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PLATOON (5)

According to a report written by the detachment commander, a reinforced platoon was sent to the town of Bingham, about 29 kilometers northeast of the test site, while offsite radiological safety monitors surveyed the area.
Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer 1996
Perhaps, if we were all marched out in a row, and a piece of platoon firing to the drums performed, it would be well for us; although, I suppose—and yet I wonder!—so ill for the poor mother and for the dear wife.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends - Volume 1 [of 2] Robert Louis Stevenson 2019
There at the head of the white platoon marched Allenby, the football captain, slim and defiant, as if aware that this year the hopes of the college rested on him, that his hundred-and-sixty pounds were expected to dodge to victory through the heavy blue and crimson lines.
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 2008
Fire on no account.” Heyward had already permitted his companion to bury part of his person in the thicket, when, stretching forth his arm, he arrested him, in order to ask: “If I see you in danger, may I not risk a shot?” Hawkeye regarded him a moment, like one who knew not how to take the question; then, nodding his head, he answered, still laughing, though inaudibly: “Fire a whole platoon, major.” In the next moment he was concealed by the leaves.
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1997
Rumfry, if that is the gentleman's name who preached an admirable Christmas sermon in a beautiful church there, will remember the platoon of four men and four women who made perhaps a fifth of his congregation in that storm,--a storm which shut off most church-going.
The brick moon and other stories Edward Everett Hale 1999

Quotes with PLATOON (3)

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.
Peter Grimwade Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.
Patrick Hennessey The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
John C. Wright
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 33 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).