Commando

Definition: Commando

Commando

Noun

1. A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.

2. An amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Commando \Com*man"do\, noun. [from Dutch expression See Command, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Commando

Crosswords: Commando

Dutch (command), French (command, commando, detachment, raider), Italian (commando), Manx (commando).

It's a rented tux. Okay? I'm not gonna go commando in another man's fatigues! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. (The A-Team; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Henrique Lobo)

Le Commando des chauds lapins (1973)

Sky Commando (1953)

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)

Daffy - the Commando (1943)

Robocop: Alpha Commando (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Air Commando One : Heinie Aderholt And America's Secret Air Wars (reference)

• Chilton's Repair and Tune-Up Guide: Jeep Wagoneer, Commando, Cherokee, Truck, 1962-1984 (reference)

• St Nazaire 1942: The Great Commando Raid (Campaign, 92) (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando (A Chapter Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Air Commando Association Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Canine Commando With Pluto (reference)

• Suburban Commando (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Spec Ops Airborne Commando (reference)

• Bionic Commando (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sweeping for mines during a commando raid by British Royal Marines at Chinnampo, North Korea. Original photo is dated 15 June 1951. This operation was intended to cut rail and other enemy supply lines. Note lookout watching for mines off Gull's bow. Credit: NAVY.

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. A modified form of "commando" tactics is part of the physical training course for enlistees at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Jim Walker, former Iowa University football star, is shown demonstra. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ranger battalions train with commando troops. Troops of the ranger battalions, America's special service soldiers, are now in training somewhere in the United Kingdom. They have been attached to combined operations, commanded by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mo. Credit: Library of Congress.

High school Victory Corps. Boys at Flushing High School, Queens, New York, toughen up by methods similiar to those used in Commando training. Ability to cover distances quickly despite obstacles is developed by the school's ranger course which these boys. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

For example, on March 15 five policemen beat Franck Konate, a journalist for the pro-PDCI newspaper L'Aurore, who was investigating the shooting of a thief by five policemen near the commando camp in Koumassi. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

They then handed Lakpe over to gendarmes who took Lakpe and his bodyguard to the Koumassi Camp Commando where the gendarmes beat them with their belts, made them swim in dirty water, and insulted them for supporting Ouattara. (references)

Economic History

United Kingdom

The Royal Marines provide commando units for amphibious assault and for specialist reinforcement forces in and beyond the NATO area. (references)

Indigenous People

Suriname

Following demonstrations in July by veterans of the Jungle Commando, who played a large role in the insurgencies, their de facto leader Ronny Brunswijk met with the Minister of Regional Development. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "commando": commando raid ♦ commando squad ♦ keyboard Commando. Additional references.

Beginning with "commando": commando-helicopter-carriers, commando-like, commando-style.

Ending with "commando": ex-commando.

Albanian

ushtar për ndërhyrje të rrezikshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏جندي كوماندو, ‏المغوار (militant). (various references)

Chinese 

特�"�队, 別動隊 (an armed secret agent squad, special detachment). (various references)

Czech

přepadový oddíl, komando (task force). (various references)

Danish

dolk til brug for kommandotropper (commando knife). (various references)

Dutch

Korps Commandotroepen (Commando Corps), dolk voor commandotroepen (commando knife). (various references)

Farsi 

تکاور. (various references)

Finnish

partioretki (commando raid, excursion). (various references)

French

commando (command). (various references)

German

kommandotruppe. (various references)

Greek 

καταδρομέασ, σώμα καταδρομών, λοκατζήσ (storm trooper). (various references)

Hebrew 

יחי�"ת פשיט�", קומ� �"ו, איש קומ� �"ו (raider). (various references)

Hungarian

kommandó, különítmény (detachment, draft, picket, task-force). (various references)

Italian

commando. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コペルニクス的転回 (a commercial, COBOL, cohort, coma, command, command module, commercial art, commercial base, commercial design, commercial film, commercial jingle, commercial message, commercial package, commercial paper, commercial song, commercialism, Common Business Oriented Language, Copernican revolution, copolymer, frame in a film or video). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コマンド (command). (various references)

Korean 

기습대원. (various references)

Manx

commando. (various references)

Pig Latin

ommandocay

Portuguese

comando (behest, bidding, captaincy, charge, command, conduct, energy, leadership, leading, mastery, power, tune-up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

komandos (ranger). (various references)

Spanish

comando (command). (various references)

Swedish

commandotrupp, commandosoldat, kustjägare. (various references)

Turkish

komando birliği, komando. (various references)

Ukrainian

бо�"ць десантно-деверсійних віськ. (various references)

Vietnamese 

lính com-măng-đô, biệt kích, đặc công. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "commando": commandoes, commandos. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Commando" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camondo, cantando, Cominco, comino, commanden, commenda, Condado. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: command.

-2 letters: ammono, common, condom.

-3 letters: codon, comma, condo, macon, monad, mondo, nomad.

-4 letters: ammo, coda, coma, coon, damn, dona, doom, mano, moan, mono, mood, moon, noma.

-5 letters: ado, and, cad, cam, can, cod, con, coo, dam, doc, dom, don, mac, mad, man, moa, moc, mod, mom, mon, moo, nam, nod, nom, noo, oca.

+1 letter: commandos.

+2 letters: commandoes.

+4 letters: commendation, commendatory, monodramatic.

+5 letters: accommodating, accommodation, commendations, incommunicado.