The bulletstoppers shipped out before we even got to the desert.About a dozen bullet-stoppers came into the bar and the army guys tried to start a fight.
bullet-stopper
noun a soldier in the infantry US, 1998
bullet-stopper
slang A US Marine. Please, I'm no bullet-stopper—I was in the Air Force.
bullet-stopper
n. a U.S. Marine. (From the Persian Gulf War.) About a dozen bullet-stoppers came into the bar and the army guys tried to start a fight.