passcode

[pas-kohd]

noun

1. password.

Word History and Origins

Origin of passcode¹

First recorded in 1980–85; pass ( def. ) + code ( def. )

Example Sentences

Our conversation coincided with the start of the papal conclave, the hush-hush assembly of cardinals who gathered to elect a successor to Pope Francis, and O’Brien can’t help but reference the event when explaining his slight delay: “Sorry, it took me a second to figure out there was a passcode to get into this secret room,” he says.

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Does anyone besides you know the passcode to your phone?

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I don’t know the passcode to hers, though.

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Anybody that’s partied at my house and they’re like, “What’s the passcode? Gotta change the music.”

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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.

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