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crapahuter

English translation: to yomp

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French term or phrase:crapahuter
English translation:to yomp
Entered by: ALAIN COTE (X)

13:10 Jan 8, 2003
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
French term or phrase: crapahuter
Leurs aines, quand ils avaient 20 ans, srapahutaient l'armee a l'epaule en algerie.
Ros
to yomp
Explanation:
crapahuter : soldiers' slang... to yomp

correction : l'armée à l'épaule = l'arme à l'épaule

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Note added at 2003-01-08 13:41:13 (GMT)
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Slang should be translated in slang...

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/ZY.HTM
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/y.htm
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ALAIN COTE (X)
Local time: 14:28
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4to yomp
ALAIN COTE (X)
3 +3trudged along
EDLING (X)
4 +2to trudge along
Francis MARC
5to trudge or crawl, to progress with much difficulty
Sara Freitas
5marched along with
NancyLynn
4crawled with their gun on the shoulder
Elisabeth Toda-v.Galen
4to trudge over difficult ground
Vera Fluhr (X)
3 -1Were part of
Diana Donzelli-Gaudet


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Were part of


Explanation:
Be part of

Diana Donzelli-Gaudet
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 68

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Céline Graciet: the idea of difficult progression is lost here
2 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to trudge or crawl, to progress with much difficulty


Explanation:
Hachette and Robert+Collins

Sara Freitas
France
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 688
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
trudged along


Explanation:
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EDLING (X)
PRO pts in pair: 62

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  markmx: or 'trudged on'
59 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Céline Graciet
1 hr
  -> Thanks

agree  GerardP
3 hrs
  -> Thanks
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to trudge along


Explanation:

marcher laborieusement dans le djebel ! souvenir-souvenir !


Référence Harrap's:

crapahuter
[ (b) Mil (sur un terrain difficile) to trudge along


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Note added at 2003-01-08 13:18:52 (GMT)
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... 8th, 1942, when they landed on the sandy beaches of Oran in Algeria. ... They just trudged along, with their rifles and machine guns and mortars, walking slowly ...
www.combatmission.com/CMMC/newsroom/tfo/TFO-1.pdf

... some confusion and long lines, boarded our charter flight to Tindouf, Algeria, a military ... I immediately eased up on my pace and trudged along to the fifteen ...
www.cccd.org/pdf/newsletter200211e.pdf

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 07:28
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 6500

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Louise Dupont (X): oui c'est de l'argot militaire
5 mins

agree  Céline Graciet
1 hr
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
crawled with their gun on the shoulder


Explanation:
je pense que c'est l'arme et non l'armée qui est en cause ici, donc c'est plutot crawl with their gun

Elisabeth Toda-v.Galen
France
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 268

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ALAIN COTE (X): oui, l'arme
4 mins

disagree  Céline Graciet: When you 'crapahute' you're still standing on your feet; and it seems fairly impossible to crawl with your gun on your shoulder... although I haven't tried! ;)
1 hr
  -> ça c'est selon la définition du dictionnaire. Il faut penser aussi à l'usage commun du mot. Les soldats crapahutent sur les genoux et coudes, ce qui oblige à porter l'arme sur l'épaule (à l'arrière)
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
marched along with


Explanation:
more appropriate
crapahuter v.

Variante(s) graphique(s)
crapaüter v.

Déf. :
Effectuer une longue marche en terrain difficile.

Note(s) :
Argot militaire.

[Office de la langue française, 1992]


NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 01:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 715
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
to yomp


Explanation:
crapahuter : soldiers' slang... to yomp

correction : l'armée à l'épaule = l'arme à l'épaule

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Note added at 2003-01-08 13:41:13 (GMT)
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Slang should be translated in slang...

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/ZY.HTM
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/y.htm


ALAIN COTE (X)
Local time: 14:28
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 17
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X): I agree and I just learned a new word...who else will admit that??:)
1 hr
  -> I will !

agree  Anna Taylor: I will
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agree  cjohnstone
4 hrs

agree  Sheila Hardie: me too - until I saw it in my dictionary!
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to trudge over difficult ground


Explanation:
Dictionnaire Robert&Collins:
crahaputer === to trudge over difficult ground

Vera Fluhr (X)
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 98
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