Definitions

code word

NOUN

secret word

Synonyms

WEAK

code book code name euphemism password secret language secret message secret writing watchword

Example Sentences

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Pineapple is the code word Celia made up last summer, right after the two of us took a very unpleasant trip to visit Dad at this writing residency place on Lake Michigan where he was spending two months.

From Literature

“Pineapple,” I squeak, using our old code word to cut off the conversation.

From Literature

“Hey, maybe she really is Chip’s birth mother. Or—or mine. Maybe that’s what witnesses really meant. Like, it’s a code word or something.”

From Literature

And given AI can now copy anybody’s voice in minutes, gather the family together and decide on a secret code word to use, to verify emergency calls are really coming who they say they are.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the age of deepfakes, every family needs a code word, writes Julie Jargon.

From The Wall Street Journal