ike
n.— «Searches of ELEKEDE’s e-mail addresses…yielded a large number of e-mails between ring members in which they exchanged credit card numbers, together with expiration dates and three-digit codes ( which codes they typically referred to as “ikes” ).» —“Man Sentenced To 34 Months In Prison For Involvement In Large Identity-Theft Ring” by Yusill Scribner, Rebekah Carmichael Media-Newswire.com Jan. 31, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The sideways figure-eight shape used as the infinity symbol is a lemniscate (lem-NIS-kit or lem-NIS-kayt). The word comes from a Greek word meaning “ribbon” or “bow,” a nod to the shape’s resemblance to a tied ribbon. It also turns up in...
If you know someone with a 20th birthday coming up, you’ll want to tuck this word away in your pocket: vigesimal. It means “having to do with the number 20,” and comes from Latin vigesimus, or “twentieth,” a relative of both vente and vignt, the...