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noun, plural -dos, -does.
1.
(in World War II)
a.
any of the specially trained Allied military units used for surprise, hit-and-run raids against Axis forces.
b.
a member of any of these units. Compare ranger (def. 3).
2.
any military unit organized for operations similar to those of the commandos of World War II.
3.
a member of a military assault unit or team trained to operate quickly and aggressively in especially urgent, threatening situations, as against terrorists holding hostages.
Origin:
1785–95; < Afrikaans kommando raid, raiding party, a unit of militia < Portuguese commando unit commanded, noun derivative of commandar to command
1785–95; < Afrikaans kommando raid, raiding party, a unit of militia < Portuguese commando unit commanded, noun derivative of commandar to command
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commando
Afrikaans, "a troop under a commander," from Port., lit. "party commanded," in use c.1809 during the Peninsula campaign, then from 1834, in a S.African sense, of military expeditions of the Boers against the natives; modern sense is from 1940, first attested in Winston Churchill's writings (originally
EXPANDshock troops to repel threatened Ger. invasion of England), who may have picked it up during the Boer War. Phrase going commando "not wearing underwear" attested by 1996, U.S. slang.
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