- cloak-and-dagger
- adjective
Date: 1860
dealing in or suggestive of melodramatic intrigue and action usually involving secret agents and espionage <a cloak-and-dagger novel> • cloak-and-dagger noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cloak-and-dagger
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