- a soldier or a group of soldiers who are trained to make quick attacks in enemy areas
- a commando raid on the north of the island
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCommando is used before these nouns:- raid
Word Originlate 18th cent. (denoting a militia, originally consisting of Boers in South Africa): from Portuguese (earlier form of comando), from commandar ‘to command’, from late Latin commandare from com- (expressing intensive force) + mandare ‘commit, command’.
Idioms
See commando in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo commando
- (informal, humorous) to not wear underwear under your clothes
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