precode

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adjective

Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.

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Meanings

adjectiveprecode (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of pre-Code.
  2. not comparablePrior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.

    The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining.

    2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”, in New York Times
verbprecode (third-person singular simple present precodes, present participle precoding, simple past and past participle precoded)

present singular third person precodes · participle present precoding · participle past precoded · past precoded

  1. To code in advance

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

precode. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precode

MLA

“precode.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precode. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “precode,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precode.

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