passcode
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of passcode
First recorded in 1980–85; pass ( def. ) + code ( def. )
Example Sentences
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You can set Privacy Display to turn on only when you’re typing your device’s passcode, or using certain apps, such as your password manager.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
If you have a phone, and it has a passcode, and something happens to you, your caregiver simply can’t get into your phone.
From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025
I was not prepped on this passcode, the challenge everyone had to pass, and so I faltered: “I’m a journalist, with, uh, Slate magazine. I think you guys knew I was coming?”
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
It uses a mechanism that generates a random security key on a device, which is encrypted by a user's lock-screen passcode, pattern or pin.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025
Later, when she noticed that Mom had started using 111360 as her cell phone passcode, Emma wanted to keep the information to herself.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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