recce

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recce

/ˈɹɛ.ki/

Rhymes with -ɛki

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Clipping of reconnaissance.

noun recces · recco · reccy

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable Reconnaissance. 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.

verb recces · recceing · recced · recce'd

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Reconnoitre. I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
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@misc{recce_2026,
  title = {recce},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recce},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}