reccy

plural reccies · alternative recce

1. countableslanguncountablegovernmentReconnaissance.

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   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.”

   2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN

present singular third person reccies · participle present reccying · participle past reccied · past reccied · alternative recce

1. slanggovernmentTo investigate with a reconnaissance trip.

plural reccies

1. UKslangA recreation ground.

   […] to look down on the reccy where young men were playing football to this ceaseless din.

   2000, Peter Nichols, Diaries, 1969-1977, page 36

   Synonyms: rec