Counter-password
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From counter- + password.
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