commando

commando
commando Afrikaans, "a troop under a commander," from Portuguese, lit. "party commanded," in use c.1809 during the Peninsula campaign, then from 1834, in a S.African sense, of military expeditions of the Boers against the natives; modern sense is from 1940 (originally shock troops to repel the threatened German invasion of England), first attested in writings of Winston Churchill, who may have picked it up during the Boer War. Phrase going commando "not wearing underwear" attested by 1996, U.S. slang.

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