Meaning of go commando | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To not wear underwear (chiefly underpants) under one's outer clothing
   idiomatic, intransitive
2. To forgo standard protections.
   broadly
3. To forgo something usually considered standard equipment.
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Ross: … why do you have to wear underwear tonight? Joey: It's a rented tux, 'kay? I'm not gonna go commando in another man's fatigues.”

“A little girl in pink exited one of the stalls with her mother behind her. “I wear big girl underpants now!” she proclaimed. She looked up at my sister. “Do you wear big girl underpants?” Nicki stared down at her. “No, I generally go commando.””

“Cute, but I saw a panty line. I stripped my panties off. No time to do more shopping—I'd just go commando.”

“I was one of the only soldiers out there wearing hearing protection; all the rest just went commando.”

“Does this mean you shouldn’t bother setting a password on your network? Absolutely not — WPA/WPA2 are still much better options than WEP or going commando, but it's important to realize that these “protected” setups aren't bulletproof.”

“It may even be a minority of one. I carry my phone around just the way the deities made it. It happens to be an iPhone, but I'd feel just the same about a Samsung Galaxy -- especially the Edge series, which strikes me as quite beautiful. Is there no way you can let your phone go commando?”

“When you want to learn how to use a specific piece of gear, such as a new lens, or master a specific technique, I advise that you go commando. When you go commando, you take just enough gear to master the technique you want to learn or only the lens with which you want to become more familiar.”

“Coding Horror author Jeff Atwood believes, “One of the quickest ways to increase your productivity on the computer is to go commando: stop using the mouse.””

“The University of Maryland University College is the largest institution in the country to go "commando" on textbooks.”

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