• (America) IPA: /ˈkloʊk/

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

   Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.

3. (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Thessalonians 2:5 ↗:

   For neither at any time vsed wee flattering wordes, as yee knowe, nor a cloke of couetousnesse, God is witnesse:

   Robert South

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

• French: pelisse, pèlerine
• German: Umhang, Pelerine
• Italian: tabarro
• Portuguese: capa, manto
• Russian: плащ
• Spanish: capa

• German: Deckmantel
• Portuguese: véu
• Russian: покро́в
• Spanish: embozo, velo

cloak (cloaks, present participle cloaking; past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figurative) To hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

• German: verhüllen
• Italian: ammantare
• Spanish: embozar