noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
2. 2
   a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

windtalker

Etymology

From code + talker.

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