crypto
A secret supporter or followerA secret supporter or follower.
» I don't mess with crypto anymore.
Я с криптой больше не связываюсь. — marafon
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A secret supporter or follower.
Examples
12 sentencesI don't mess with crypto anymore.
ruЯ с криптой больше не связываюсь. — marafon
Tom likes to tout the importance of crypto.
He told his parents to invest in crypto when he was 10 years old.
Tom is a crypto-fascist.
It's a misnomer to refer to non-crypto-currency as "fiat," since cryptocurrency is also fiat.
Origin
All senses trace back to clippings of words derived from the prefix crypto-, developed atAll senses trace back to clippings of words derived from the prefix crypto-, developed at various times in the 20th and 21st centuries. During the 2010s and 2020s, the "cryptocurrency" sense has become the dominant sense. The "cryptography" sense predates that one; thus, a computer or math geek in earlier decades would be referring to cryptography when using this word. The "secret supporter or follower" sense is clipped from such terms as cryptofascist and cryptocommunist. The several informal senses in medicine referring to several microbe genera or the diseases they cause have existed since circa the mid-20th century.
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Forms
plural: cryptosWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable