reccy
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editClipping of reconnaissance + -y.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editreccy (countable and uncountable, plural reccies)
- (military slang) Reconnaissance.
- 2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy)[1], Random House, →ISBN:
- Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”
Verb
editreccy (third-person singular simple present reccies, present participle reccying, simple past and past participle reccied)
- (military slang) To investigate with a reconnaissance trip.
Etymology 2
editClipping of recreation ground + -y
Noun
editreccy (plural reccies)
- (UK, slang) A recreation ground.
- Synonym: rec
- 2000, Peter Nichols, Diaries, 1969-1977, page 36:
- […] to look down on the reccy where young men were playing football to this ceaseless din.