Meaning of black-bag | Babel Free

Definitions

Involving sophisticated clandestine methods for gaining unauthorized entry and obtaining information.

not-comparable

Examples

“Watergate turned out to be a black-bag operation by former CIA employees.”

“Holden's SEAL training had covered clandestine penetrations, but never black-bag jobs”

“Con Keeler was past his fortieth birthday and a veteran of more black-bag jobs than he could count.”

“In an interesting coda that perhaps presaged the black-bag jobs of the Watergate era, an unknown person or persons broke into Dr. Parr's office on New York's Forty-second street in 1926, gained access to the safe, and stole President Grant's, Mrs. Grant's, and President Chester Arthur's dentures.”

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