cover name

Noun

 * 1)  A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something for confidentiality.
 * 2) * 1922, UK Parliament, Report in the Case of Sir , London, p.7
 * By the time that he landed in New York early in June, 1915, Sir Edgar Speyer had good cause to be well aware that the Government was strongly opposed to any communication, direct or indirect, with enemy country and to all attempts to evade the censorship of letters and cables, whether by the use of code words or cover names;
 * 1) * 1941, Richard Krebs (as ), Out of the Night, New York: Alliance Book Corporation, Chapter31, p.493,
 * The map of Germany was in my head—its cities, rivers, railroad schedules. I memorized a long string of names and cover names

Alternative forms

 * covername