dubok

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дубо́к (dubók), from дуб (dub, oak tree).

Noun

dubok (plural duboks)

  1. (espionage) A dead drop.
    • 1947, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan:
      And then there are the duboks. Every Red Army intelligence agent abroad is assigned the task of finding duboks in the city where he is stationed. A dubok is a hiding place for anything that may be exchanged in espionage work []
    • 1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 509:
      Meantime, in addition to the active agents, scores of others wait expectantly, always on the alert; scores of yavkas operate; scores of duboks are maintained; exchange of personnel goes on constantly.
    • 1981, H. Montgomery Hyde, The Atom Bomb Spies, page 91:
      [] was unable to remember the spy's cover name but he did not attach much importance to this, since, as he pointed out, cover names, like duboks, were changed from time to time.
    • 2011, Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups:
      His couriers should communicate with him through duboks – hiding places where messages could be left or collected, also called 'dead letterboxes' []

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *glǫbokъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dǔbok/
  • Hyphenation: du‧bok

Adjective

dùbok (Cyrillic spelling ду̀бок, definite dùbokī, comparative dȕbljī)

  1. deep

Declension

Further reading

  • dubok”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024