reccy

noun, verb — 3 senses

reccy

noun

/ˈrɛki/

Etymology Clipping of reconnaissance + -y.

1

Government, Military, Politics, War Slang Reconnaissance.

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:

reccy

verb

Etymology Clipping of reconnaissance + -y.

1

Government, Military, Politics, War Slang To investigate with a reconnaissance trip.

reccy

noun

Etymology Clipping of recreation ground + -y.

1

UK, Slang A 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:

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