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code words

noun as in phonetic alphabet

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Not even, usually, secret code words or highly classified pictures.

In Hungary, everyone knows these are code words for anti-Semitism.

Yet even after manual screening, there were plenty of Craigslist ads with code words for underage girls.

I could hear the code words and I could hear the words that signified he had been captured.

Later on in my diary there were lots of code words about sexual matters.

Ford was still puzzling over the meaningless code words when he took his seat in the second of the two buckboards with Frisbie.

They were practically in front of the man before they stopped, and Dave spoke the code words in flawless German.

The last one we opened contained the word, "Cromer 900," and I wondered whether they were code words.

Thousands using it, yet the errors in transmitting its code words are less even than in messages in plain English.

At the same time the use of proper names as code words was prohibited.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to code word, such as: code book, code name, euphemism, password, secret language, and secret message.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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