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coded

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkəʊ.dəd//
  • United Kingdom//ˈkəʊ.dɪd//

Encoded; written in code or cipher.

adjective

  1. 1

    Encoded; written in code or cipher.

  2. 2

    Portrayed in a way that suggests or resembles having a specific trait or inspiration, without being officially explicitly stated as having that trait.

    The character comes across as being female-coded.

    This character is coded as autistic.

    This is partly because male-coded jobs typically offer more pay, prestige, and independence than female-coded jobs, so the financial incentives for women are greater. Many men, however, avoid female-coded fields even when they know the pay and opportunities for advancement would be superior to their other options […]

    He is aware of a number of programs with more "capable" characters like Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, who are autistic coded without being explicitly named as such. James notes that, despite being more visible, the autistic traits of these characters tend to be used for comic relief, while autistic people in everyday situations are never seen.

  3. 3

    Like; resembling or having the characteristics of.

    That is so me-coded fr.

    Bro has been acting kind of NPC-coded lately.

    2015-coded

    [Dianna Cowern, eating a vegetable 'pudding':] "It's very baby food coded." / [Kyle Kitzmiller:] "Yes." / [Dianna:] "Because it is deeply pureed."

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of codesimple past and past participle of code

Forms

comparative
more coded
superlative
most coded
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).