codetalker

Definitions of codetalker
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: windtalker
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    type of:
    intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
    a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
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