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▪ I. recce, n. orig. Mil. slang.|ˈrɛkiː|
Also reccy.
Shortened form of reconnaissance. Freq. attrib. Cf. recco.
1941Illustr. London News CXCVIII. 802 (caption) A motor-cycle ‘reccy’ unit (special reconnaissance troops of armoured force). 1942E. Waugh Put out more Flags 151 The C.O. has just gone forward with his recce group to make his recce. 1944R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 260 We aren't likely to do any serious fighting unless..we are faced by recce patrols by the enemy. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse iv. 71 My lads became truly proficient in practical recce-work. 1958G. Usher Death in Bag vi. 56, I did a bit of a recce. 1961W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio iii. 45 No recce plane tried a quick dash to capture a tell-tale photograph. 1968Listener 19 Dec. 812/1 In a side-street we stopped. ‘I'll just do a bit of a recce,’ the Fiddler said. 1974Observer (Colour Suppl.) 28 Apr. 25/4 We were interrupted by a knock at the door of the mews flat in Belgravia, where Deighton had set up temporary headquarters during his London recce. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 235 He had had it off all right, thanks..to making careful reccys. 1979‘A. Hailey’ Overload i. xvii. 102, I sometimes think about two guys in Korea, close buddies of mine. We were on a recce patrol near the Yalu river.
▪ II. recce, v. orig. Mil. slang.
Also reccy.
[Shortened f. reconnoitre v.]
trans. and intr. To reconnoitre (a place, etc.).
1943J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxiv. 175 We're even reccying alternative positions twenty miles back to withdraw to. 1944M. Standing in War Report (B.B.C.) (1946) ii. iv. 106 Do not unload until waders have recce'd the water in front of your door. 1945Comment from Italy (Three Arts Club) 48 So I find four bottles and start out across the fields to recce for a farmhouse. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 299 I'm going out myself with the adjutant to recce training areas. 1958P. Scott Mark of Warrior i. 59 I'll know better to-day when I've recced it. 1959‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies x. 156 These two recce'd up here, and found them gone. 1968Listener 11 July 40/3 He was..recce-ing the new tourist ‘firsts’ like the Canadian North-West Passage. 1972Shooting Times & Country Mag. 4 Mar. 21/2 ‘Lofters’..come over to recce the food situation in the more populated areas. 1976Listener 8 Apr. 438/1 Neither of us had seen any of his architecture in Virginia, so I set off to recce Richmond and Charlottesville. |