hush-hush
Adjective
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Adjective
hush-hush
- Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
- The spy program was very hush-hush: no-one ever spoke of it.
- See also Thesaurus:covert
hush-hush (uncountable)
- secrecy; covert operation
- 1933, The China Monthly Review (volume 67, page 64)
- I find a very definite policy of hush-hush here about what Japan is doing […]
- 1933, The China Monthly Review (volume 67, page 64)
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