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counter-passwords

counter-passwords is the plural of counter-password.

Meaning of counter-password

Noun

counter-password (plural counter-passwords)

  1. The response to a password, which identities the person to whom the password is given as the correct contact.
    • All this is the cultural equivalent of spy movies in which the hero must look for a man wearing a green carnation, mumble, “The thrush flies at midnight,” and listen for the counter-password.2007, Rachel Held Evans, Larry Richards, The Book of Mark, →ISBN, page cxvi

Questions about counter-passwords

What is counter-passwords the plural of?
Counter-passwords is the plural of counter-password.

Words near counter-passwords in the dictionary

  1. counter-parry
  2. counter-parties
  3. counter-party
  4. counter-passant
  5. counter-password
  6. counter-passwords
  7. counter-payment
  8. counter-payments
  9. counter-potent
  10. counter-potenty
  11. counter-productive

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