"counter-password" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "counter- + password",
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          "ref": "2007, Rachel Held Evans, Larry Richards, The Book of Mark, page cxvi",
          "text": "All this is the cultural equivalent of spy movies in which the hero must look for a man wearing a green carnation, mumble, “The thrush flies at midnight,” and listen for the counter-password.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Crump, Conflict of Interest",
          "text": "He had rehearsed his own counter-password over and over again throughout that time, as he nervously looked at his watch and wondered what could have gone wrong.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Peter Pook, Pook's Class War",
          "text": "Give him the password 'Charlton Athletic for the Cup', and he will give the counter-password 'Tottenham Hotspurs for the League'.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Jim Nicholson, George-3-7th Marines",
          "text": "We had an angry dialogue for a couple of minutes and could not establish the password and counter-password.",
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        "The response to a password, which identities the person to whom the password is given as the correct contact."
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          "contact",
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          "word": "counterpassword"
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        {
          "word": "counter password"
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  "word": "counter-password"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "counter- + password",
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    {
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        "plural"
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        },
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        },
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      "word": "counterpassword"
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      "word": "counter password"
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  "word": "counter-password"
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