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cypher

[ sahy-fer ]

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a variant of cipher.
  2. Also cipher.
    1. a performance by a group of rappers, hip-hop artists, or break dancers who take turns improvising individual verses, dances, etc:

      The show ended with a freestyle cypher featuring the rappers from the headliner and the two opening acts.

    2. an individual verse, dance, etc., that is part of such a performance:

      She rose to stardom when her cypher that dissed two other male artists went viral.



cypher

/ ˈsaɪfə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of cipher


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cypher1

First recorded in 1995–2000

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Example Sentences

He plays Commander Alastair Denniston, head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS) at Bletchley Park during World War II.

He accuses me of being a "hired gun" as if I am an easily bought cypher for right wing propaganda.

He had created a kind of cypher, without any obvious hierarchy of order.

It was a jumbled cypher, but the training that Lechmere had had in that kind of thing enabled him to read it almost at a glance.

This message he sent in a sluggbullet, being writ in cypher, and wrapped up in lead and swallowed.

Dun Gnat—from inside wing feather of a Landrail and fawn coloured silk—cypher hook.

The sense is broken here, owing to the omission of three lines in cypher, the key to which could not be found.

So was it in diuision by the penne, and therfore was there a cypher set in the quotient: but howe shall that be noted here?

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