Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation of incognito.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb colloq. Incognito.

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  • adjective Incognito.
  • adverb Incognito.
  • noun Incognito.

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Examples

  • So I keep pretty incog from the genteel; and Tom does well enough in the interim. '

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • Mr. Lincoln “passed through incog in order to avoid the attention of his political friends here whose unpopularity with the great mass of the people is so notorious,” determined the American & Commercial Advertiser editor.

    Dennis Frye: How real was the so-called "Baltimore Plot" to kill President-elect Lincoln when he passed through Baltimore en route to Washington? Dennis Frye 2011

  • Elspeth was in Scotland enduring her sisters, and here was the ideal billet where I could lurk incog. while Gordon beat the bushes - and enjoy some good carnal amusement, to judge from the photograph.

    Watershed 2010

  • I was in that state of funk where any loophole looks fine-and when I came to weigh it, travelling incog in Susie's caravan looked a sight safer than anything else.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • By their reaction, he was less than incognito and more like incog… Neato!

    With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

  • Anyway I inspected some of their institutions incog and saw enough to convince myself that I am doing a wise thing by having some of the children at least under the sisters.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Hey, about the title of this post ... if a black man is hiding, does that make him incog-negro?

    DELETED OCEANS 13 CLIP IS INCOG-NEATO 2007

  • Servants, with all manner of Imbellishments to grace and adorn my Beauty; which Beauty (continu'd he) has chain'd my Heart, ever since the moment I beheld it in the Milliner's Shop, where I was (incog) buying some things, on purpose to see you; for you were recommended to me by Mrs. Wheedle, the Woman that brought you hither.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Servants, with all manner of Imbellishments to grace and adorn my Beauty; which Beauty (continu'd he) has chain'd my Heart, ever since the moment I beheld it in the Milliner's Shop, where I was (incog) buying some things, on purpose to see you; for you were recommended to me by Mrs. Wheedle, the Woman that brought you hither.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • So I keep pretty incog from the genteel; and Tom does well enough in the interim. '

    Camilla 2008

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