Definitions for platoon

• Definition
• Anagrams (137)

platoon pla·toon

Spelling: [pluh-toon]

IPA: /pləˈtun/

Platoon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in platoon (alnoopt).

Definitions for platoon

noun

1. a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
2. a small unit of a police force.
3. a company or group of persons:
4. Football. a group of players specially trained in one aspect of the game, as offense or defense, and used as a unit:

verb (used with object)

1. Sports. to use (a player) at a position in a game alternately with another player or players. to alternate (two different teams or units), as separate offensive and defensive squads.

verb (used without object)

1. Sports. to alternate at a position with another player or players. to use players alternately at the same position. to alternate different teams.

Origin of platoon

1630-40; earlier plotton French peloton little ball, group, platoon, diminutive of pelote ball. See pellet, -oon

Examples for platoon

They carry portable telephones with which they can communicate with their platoon.

They were suspended by cords from a gibbet, to be fired at by a platoon of soldiers.

It was the part that Willem Dafoe wound up playing in platoon.

Fannia stopped and watched as a platoon of natives advanced on them.

Once every ten days, a platoon rotates back to Balad Air Base to take showers and wash clothes.

One day, “myself and Holmes found ourselves kind of secluded from the majority of the platoon,” Morlock tells Krauss.

The designation "So-and-so's" squad or platoon may also be used.

As the platoon was leaving the compound, they came across a local: Mullah Adahdad.

But that was Oliver expunging all this anger he had from not being able to get platoon made yet, which was his baby.

The platoon experiment was illuminating in several respects.