a soldier or a group of soldiers who are trained to make quick attacks in enemy areas 突击手;突击队;突击队员 a commando raid on the north of the island 对该岛北部的突击搜查
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
go commando
- (informal, humorous)
to not wear underwear under your clothes 不穿内衣;空身穿外衣