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Definition of Passkey
1. Noun. Key that secures entrance everywhere.
Generic synonyms: Key
Specialized synonyms: Skeleton Key
Definition of Passkey
1. n. A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
Definition of Passkey
1. Noun. A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door ¹
2. Noun. (computing) A password. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Passkey
1. a key that opens several different locks [n -KEYS]
Literary usage of Passkey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"with a passkey, which he had not furnished her, and placed her furniture and
other household goods In the house; that he had rented portions of the house to ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"She hurried along the corridor, to be sure, but only to reappear with a passkey
in her grasp, halting before the room in which the card .game had been in ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Upon minor points he did not always agree with Darwin, but his faith in natural
selection as a universal passkey was far firmer than Darwin's own. ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"He had a sort of compassion for his weakness, and weakness was always a passkey
to Tom's heart. Why, when he was a mere lad—You remember the old ..."
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