Usually means: Secretive or mysterious espionage activities.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Cloak and dagger:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. cloak-and-dagger: Merriam-Webster
  2. cloak-and-dagger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cloak-and-dagger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cloak-and-dagger, cloak-and-dagger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cloak-and-dagger: Vocabulary.com
  6. cloak-and-dagger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cloak-and-dagger: Wiktionary
  8. cloak-and-dagger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cloak-and-dagger: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cloak-and-dagger, cloak and dagger: Dictionary.com
  11. cloak-and-dagger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Cloak and Dagger (TV series), Cloak and Dagger (comics), Cloak and Dagger (film), Cloak and Dagger (radio series), Cloak and Dagger, Cloak-and-dagger, Cloak and dagger (disambiguation), Cloak and dagger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cloak-and-dagger: Rhymezone
  14. cloak-and-dagger: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cloak-and-dagger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cloak-and-dagger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. cloak and dagger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cloak-and-dagger: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cloak-and-dagger: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cloak and dagger: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Cloak and dagger)

noun:  The phrase cloak and dagger describes situations involving intrigue, secrecy, espionage, or mystery.
noun:  Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a superhero duo appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
noun:  an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain.
noun:  a 1946 American spy film directed by Fritz Lang which stars Gary Cooper as an American scientist sent by the Office of Strategic Services to contact European scientists working on the German nuclear weapons program and Lilli Palmer as a member of the Italian resistance movement who shelters and guides him.
noun:  "Cloak and dagger" was a fighting style common by the time of the Renaissance involving a knife hidden beneath a cloak.


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