codeword
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The film’s title is a banking codeword for “be quiet, careful what you say,” and the story prefers the horrors of the unsaid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
It’s certainly what I was shouting out loud at my screen as I watched, and I wasn’t the one forced to say such a silly codeword on an adult reality show.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2021
Within ten minutes he broke the codeword and we needed to put another one on the computer.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2020
There is no level “beyond” top secret, but within those three broad categories are what the government calls “need to know” information, multitudes of sub-clearances, each designated by their own codeword.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2018
Thus "amber" is the codeword for £1; "heliotrope" for £20; "rainbow" for "win and 1, 2."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 by Various
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