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WINDTALKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does windtalker mean?
• WINDTALKER (noun)
The noun WINDTALKER 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: WINDTALKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("windtalker" is a kind of...):
intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)
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