Stryker

Meaning

Noun

• A modern, heavy-duty, full-featured gurney, typically heavily padded and having yellow legs.
• An eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.

Origin

• Sense of armoured vehicle is from 2002, named for two Americans who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: PFC Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II, and SP4 Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.