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Wiktionary

  1. n. A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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

  1. code +‎ talker (Wiktionary)

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.”

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

  • “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.”

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  1. intelligence officer
  1. operative
  1. intelligence agent
  1. secret agent

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