recon meaning (slang): definition, etymology and quotations

recon

noun

UK /ɹɪˈkɒn/ · US /ˈɹikɑn/

Etymology Contracted form of reconnaissance.

Government, Military, Politics, War US, Slang reconnaissance.

During a scan of the Phoenix system asteroid field, you detected an odd energy reading that Tali determined was quarian in nature. She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix:
“Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish. Be back in two or three or ten days.”2026 March 1, Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia, “The Flume Flume Room” (6:33 from the start), in American Dad!, season 22, episode 2, spoken by Stan Smith (Seth MacFarlane):

A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.

recon

verb

Etymology Contracted form of reconnaissance.

Government, Military, Politics, War US, Slang reconnoiter.

Synonyms: recce

recon

noun

Etymology Contracted form of recombination + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " […] the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."

Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

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