straggler
strag ler
- n someone who strays or falls behind
- As an exhausted straggler would stumble into a village last week, angry spearmen would rush out to ask "Ane men? Who are you?" If the straggler answered in any Ethiopian tongue .
- The moment comes when Zotov is confronted by a "straggler"one of the thousands of Russian soldiers who had been separated from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans .
- Occasionally the victors discovered an enemy straggler: Western journalists intervened to save the life of a young, beardless suspect whom Alliance soldiers had dragged out of a .