Definitions

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  • noun A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.

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  • 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

Etymologies

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code +‎ talker

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Examples

  • Though the smoking gun cassette has been stolen from him in a mugging, he reveals that he's had codetalker Albert Hosteen and his buddies memorize its contents.

    this is about to go off!, a.k.a. fuck yeah! intertribal 2010

  • Though the smoking gun cassette has been stolen from him in a mugging, he reveals that he's had codetalker Albert Hosteen and his buddies memorize its contents.

    intertribal: this is about to go off!, a.k.a. fuck yeah! intertribal 2010

  • GRADE: 7WTMWBBTTT, WOATS: About the same "Windtalkers" (Release date: 11/9, MGM) SYNOPSIS: In the Pacific theater of World War II, a soldier (Nicholas Cage) is charged with protecting a Navajo codetalker -- and killing him if he falls into enemy hands.

    Coming Distractions 2007

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