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commando
(encz) | commando,komando n: Zdeněk Brož |
Commando
(gcide) | Commando \Com*man"do\, n. [D. See Command, v. t.]
1. In South Africa, a military body or command; also,
sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a
hundred Boers.
The war bands, called commandos, have played a great
part in the . . . military history of the country.
--James Bryce.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a usually small military unit trained to perform special
missions, often behind enemy lines, and usually employing
hit-and-run tactics. Such units often have the destruction
of fixed targets, such as enemy installations, as their
mission, in contrast to normal combat units which engage
the enemy army directly.
[PJC]
3. a member of a commando[2] unit.
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commando
(wn) | commando
n 1: a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for
hit-and-run raids [syn: commando, ranger]
2: an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy
territory |
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commando
(encz) | commando,komando n: Zdeněk Brož |
commando
(wn) | commando
n 1: a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for
hit-and-run raids [syn: commando, ranger]
2: an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy
territory |
keyboard commando
(foldoc) | Keyboard Commando
A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively
on military or combat topics, but who has never served in
uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
(1997-04-25)
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