Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
WordNet
adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, on the quiet(p), secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]
Usage examples of "hush-hush".
Danny Valentine, world-class Necromance who retired rich at the top of her game after a hush-hush bounty hunt that nobody can dig up any information on except for the Nuevo Rio Mob War.
Dutch had said that his rescue mission was hush-hush stuff because of the risk of starting a war, and at the time, this particular pair of banana republics had been closest to escalating their perpetual disagreements and border incidents into something bloodier and more formal.
Not that Gearman had any hard evidence that his assignment was to any such hush-hush project.
There had been no difficulty in getting in to see Lawrence Bigelow, for long years head of the biggest hush-hush bureau in Greater Washington.
The bureaucratic bunfights I had to go throughl First, Tech Section tried to grab 'em for that hush-hush uranium refining thing out by the Quattara.
All of this is done in civilian dress as our presence in Vietnam is hush-hush.
I sold Liberty Bonds and made four-minute speeches and served both on a draft board and a rationing board and made other valuable contributions-until the President called me to Washington, and what I did then was hush-hush and you wouldn't believe it if I told you.
Government's very hush-hush weapons research establishment south of the town of columbia, an establishment concerned with the evolving, as had only become known in the past week or so, of some sort of small fission weapon for use by either fighter planes or mobile rocket launchers in local tactical nuclear wars.
My souldebilitating work for Hush-Hush finally paid off in the form of a tip proffered by a bouncer at a male brothel in Hermosa Beach.
Hed told Elisabeth the Prideful Sue had returned to Earthsystem on very big and very hush-hush business, something he wasnt free to talk about, and that if the deal was concluded successfully he might be taking a long vacation from spacefaring.
He'd told Elisabeth the Prideful Sue had returned to Earthsystem on very big and very hush-hush business, something he wasn't free to talk about, and that if the deal was concluded successfully he might be taking a long vacation from spacefaring.
And, better and better, because White Council business was all hush-hush to nonwizards, I wouldn't be able to explain to her why I was doing it.
And, better and better, because White Council business was all hush-hush to nonwizards, I wouldn’t be able to explain to her why I was doing it.
Listen close, dear reader: this is off the record, on the QT and _very_ Hush-Hush.
I'll pander to pederastic pride or hurl some hurt in the spirit of the Hush-Hush holocaust.