Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An electronic password.

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  • noun A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door
  • noun computing A password.

Etymologies

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From pass +‎ key.

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Examples

  • Yes if it's WEP encripted it is fairly easy to crack. if it's WAP or WPA you (within reason) cant. usually the passkey is the name of the router itself in less secure areas en Español

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • We reject all your "passkey" piffle, point to the bankruptcy of your "moral value," and contend that the presence of even the most basic skills of ethical evaluation is vastly preferable to your line of crap.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • We reject all your "passkey" piffle, point to the bankruptcy of your "moral value," and contend that the presence of even the most basic skills of ethical evaluation is vastly preferable to your line of crap.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • One is for a door that can help you get a passkey, one is near the end of the game, and one is a sequence breaking door that will let you skip the armor and let you beat the game in just your shirt and backpack.

    Not Now, Honey, I'm Exploring SVGL 2009

  • You reach for the passkey, desiring to be a guardian of public conscience in our age, spouting your rhetoric of moral value and demonstrating the complete absence of any truly ethical value.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • You reach for the passkey, desiring to be a guardian of public conscience in our age, spouting your rhetoric of moral value and demonstrating the complete absence of any truly ethical value.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • On the first day [of training camp], as we were being checked in and given our dorm-room keys, Haz caused a distraction while I stole a passkey.

    Jim Haslett, his teammates and hunting knives 2010

  • David slid his passkey into the slot and when the light turned green he placed his forearm on the handle and opened the door.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

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