CODETALKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does codetalker mean? 

• CODETALKER (noun)
  The noun CODETALKER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CODETALKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CODETALKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

codetalker; windtalker

Hypernyms ("codetalker" is a kind of...):

intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)