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
Our first business was to procure passports, and to learn the countersigns; after which Capt.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
They reached New York at two o'clock on the 25th, and Isaac Low countersigns.
From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Henry P. Johnston
It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
