Enigma
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Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained oraccounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, anenigmatical answer.
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a mysterious or puzzling person or object
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1.Someone perplexing or puzzling.
2. A word people usually use incorrectly.
3. Flipping out and throwing a shoe across the hall at someone's head, hitting them between the eyes. -
A person of mystery that keeps you guessing
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The original Enigma was a german cryptographic tool, used for coding army messages. Invented by H. Koch, was in use since 1920's. The coding method Enigma used was not broken till three Polish mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski started working on it shortly before WW2. Thanks to their accomplishment, the Allies were able to read top-secret Nazi communication.
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The Enigma was an electro-mechanical rotor cypher machine used for both encryption and decryption, widely used in various forms in Europe from the early 1920s on. It is most famous for having been adopted by most German military forces from about 1930 on. Ease of use and the supposedly unbreakable cypher were the main reasons for its widespread use. The cypher was in fact broken, and the reading of information in the messages it didn't protect is generally credited with ending World War II at least a year earlier than it would have otherwise.
The British encryption machine, Typex, and several American ones, eg the SIGABA or M-134-C, were similar in principle to Enigma, but far more secure. The first modern rotor cypher machine, by Edward Hebern, was considerably less secure, a fact noted by William F. Friedman when it was offered to the US Government.
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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation
A person of puzzling or contradictory character -
someone who does not believe in bed bugs
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Women.
i.e The female of the species.
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The coolest cat around. No one can out cool him, not even Cheebo.
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To [orally] [extract] semen from someones rectum, often using a [straw].
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