counter-password
nounEtymology From counter- + password.
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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.2007, Rachel Held Evans, Larry Richards, The Book of Mark, →ISBN, page cxvi:
- He had rehearsed his own counter-password over and over again throughout that time, as he nervously looked at his watch and wondered what could have gone wrong.2010, David Crump, Conflict of Interest, →ISBN:
2 more examples
- Give him the password 'Charlton Athletic for the Cup', and he will give the counter-password 'Tottenham Hotspurs for the League'.2014, Peter Pook, Pook's Class War, →ISBN:
- We had an angry dialogue for a couple of minutes and could not establish the password and counter-password.2016, Jim Nicholson, George-3-7th Marines, →ISBN: