countersign
noun
a sign used in reply to another sign.
countersigns
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present tense formof countersign (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful.
From Time Magazine Archive
They hung 'round the market, and they patrolled the streets, and they had signs and countersigns, and more tomfoolery than would run a circus.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
We met at night, and had our countersigns to prevent detection.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
Thus the signs and countersigns were exchanged, and the stranger said— “You're alone, Paul Davies, I take it.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
