undercover
/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/
undercover adjective: performed or happening in secret.
Adjective
undercover (comparative more undercover, superlative most undercover)
Noun
undercover (plural undercovers)
- A person who works undercover.
- Then there's the heterosexual, open-mined ^([sic]) entourage who loves us dearly and are our best friends. They laugh at our humor and understand our sorrow. For they are rare and unique in prison. But the vipers always ruin things. They refer to our straight friends as "Closet-Cases,"...1990 December 16, Gianni Comes, “Not Just Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 4
Verb
undercover (third-person singular simple present undercovers, present participle undercovering, simple past and past participle undercovered)
- To provide too little coverage.
- The estimates of bias reported here depend on the assumption that 6- to 14-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as children 0 to 14 years old and that 16- to 17-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as 16- to 19-year-olds.2000, Robin R. Henke, Phillipp Kaufman, Stephen P. Broughman, Kathryn Chandler, Issues related to estimating the home-schooled population in theUnited States with national household survey data, →ISBN
- To oversimplify, if black males age 20 to 29 are undercovered by 50 percent, then the first stage sampling weights for black males age 20 to 29 are doubled to properly sum to known population totals.2004, Gary Orfield, Dropouts in America: confronting the graduation rate crisis, page 116
undercover meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
undercover in Tamil
- மறைமுகமான, மறைவாக
undercover in Urdu
- بھیدی, خفیہ, خفیہ کام کرنے والا
undercover in Bengali
- আন্ডারকভার
undercover in Malayalam
- secret, covert, clandestine
- ഗുപ്തമായ, വേഷം മാറിയുള്ള, ഒളിച്ചും മറഞ്ഞുമുള്ള, മറയ്ക്കപ്പെട്ട, രഹസ്യമായ, പ്രച്ഛന്നം
More languagesFewer languages
- undercover in Kannada
- ಗುಟ್ಟಾಗಿ
- undercover in Punjabi
- ਅੰਡਰਕਵਰ
- undercover in Vietnamese
- bí mật, nằm vùng
Examples of undercover in a sentence
- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- They're all undercover khanees yutes that love chilling with other men in xabsi.
- It isn't the cops, though, unless they're driving around undercover in souped-up Toyota twin-cams.
Synonyms of undercover
Forms of undercover
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more undercover |
| superlative | most undercover |
| Noun | |
| plural | undercovers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | undercovers |
| present participle | undercovering |
| past participle | undercovered |
| past | undercovered |
Origin of undercover
From under + cover.
Words formed from undercover
Questions about undercover
- What does undercover mean?
- Undercover means performed or happening in secret.
- What is undercover in Tamil?
- Undercover in Tamil is மறைமுகமான, மறைவாக. See Undercover meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is undercover?
- Undercover can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce undercover?
- Undercover is pronounced /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈkʌvə(ɹ)/.
Words near undercover in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: undercover (page history and authors); undercover (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undercover (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undercover (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undercover (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); undercover (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undercover (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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