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What does cloak-and-dagger mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cloak-and-dagger? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
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He saw me at the hungry i in San Francisco two years ago and that's when he had the brilliant idea to use me in a cloak-and-dagger deal.
These are some of the questions that the Punjab law, which was enacted in a cloak-and-dagger manner, has raised.
The Windows drive is patched with whatever the MS auto-update cloak-and-dagger process does to it.
Part of the misperception today stems from the cloak-and-dagger intrigue so prevalent in pop culture's version of international police work.
By their very nature, underworld deals are negotiated and sealed in cloak-and-dagger secrecy.
Doing it after school hours or in some organised cloak-and-dagger way is surely the opposite to what the school is trying to achieve.

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