dubok
dubok noun: a dead drop.
Noun
dubok (plural duboks)
- A dead drop.
- And then there are the duboks. Every Red Army intelligence agent abroad is assigned the task of finding duboks in the city where he is stationed. A dubok is a hiding place for anything that may be exchanged in espionage work […]1947, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan
- Meantime, in addition to the active agents, scores of others wait expectantly, always on the alert; scores of yavkas operate; scores of duboks are maintained; exchange of personnel goes on constantly.1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 509
Examples of dubok in a sentence
- […] was unable to remember the spy's cover name but he did not attach much importance to this, since, as he pointed out, cover names, like duboks, were changed from time to time.1981, H. Montgomery Hyde, The Atom Bomb Spies, page 91:
- His couriers should communicate with him through duboks – hiding places where messages could be left or collected, also called 'dead letterboxes' […]2011, Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups:
Forms of dubok
| plural | duboks |
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Origin of dubok
Borrowed from Russian дубо́к (dubók), from дуб (dub, “oak tree”).
Questions about dubok
- What does dubok mean?
- Dubok means a dead drop.
- How do you use dubok in a sentence?
- […] was unable to remember the spy's cover name but he did not attach much importance to this, since, as he pointed out, cover names, like duboks, were changed from time to time.
- What part of speech is dubok?
- Dubok is a noun.
- What is the plural of dubok?
- The plural of dubok is duboks.
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