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Commando   /kəmˈændˌoʊ/   Listen
Commando

noun
1.
A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.  Synonym: ranger.
2.
An amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory.





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"Commando" Quotes from Famous Books



... I have referred to the return from Giessen of four officers sent to Giessen, and returned again to Frankfort and to Nauheim, from which they came. I referred in this letter to the commander of the XVIIIth. Army Corps here. The commando is in charge of Excellenz de Graaf, who has, as he tells me, an American wife, and who through the past few months has shown this consulate all possible consideration, as it seems to Mr. Ives and myself. Twice during the great press of the first few weeks ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton
... that there were no Boer commandoes anywhere within miles; that the whole family cordially hoped that there never would be again, and that Brink was really a most loyal Briton, and had been much against the war, but had been forced to go on commando with his two sons. Their loyalty was evident, because there was an oleograph of the Queen on the wall, and one of the numerous flappers was playing our National anthem on the ...
— The Defence of Duffer's Drift • Ernest Dunlop Swinton


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