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not known or meant to be known by the general populace
- the reporter suspected there was a hush-hush reason why the company agreed to the deal
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2
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
- top-echelon diplomats met in a hush-hush conference in a last-ditch effort to head off an international crisis
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The first known use of hush-hush was in 1916
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