Usually means: Mobile, lightly armed, fast-moving soldiers.
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  1. light infantry: Collins English Dictionary
  2. light-infantry, light infantry: Wordnik
  3. light infantry: Wiktionary
  4. light infantry: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Light infantry, light infantry: Dictionary.com
  6. Light Infantry, Light infantry, The Light Infantry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. light infantry: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Light infantry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (light infantry)

noun:  Ground combat soldiers who are not mechanized, and whose role is to harass the enemy in front of the main body of infantry.
noun:  (slang, archaic) Bedbugs or fleas.

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