passcode

[pas-kohd]

noun

1. password.

Word History and Origins

Origin of passcode¹

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

Example Sentences

If you have a phone, and it has a passcode, and something happens to you, your caregiver simply can’t get into your phone.

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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?”

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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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