code talker

A form of codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.

Meanings

nouncode talker (plural code talkers)

plural code talkers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of codetalker.
    1 more example

    As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII. […] At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.

    2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN
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APA

code talker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/code%20talker

MLA

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Chicago

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