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WINDTALKER
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I. (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
Synonyms:
codetalker; windtalker
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Hypernyms ("windtalker" is a kind of...):
intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)