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counter password

counter password is the alternative form 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

Forms of counter password

pluralcounter passwords

Questions about counter password

What is counter password the alternative form of?
Counter password is the alternative form of counter-password.

Words near counter password in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counter password (page history and authors); counter-password (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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