WINDTALKER

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 I. (noun) 

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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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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("windtalker" is a kind of...):

intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)

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