master key

English

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Noun

master key (plural master keys)

1. A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey.
2. (figurative) Any tool or technique that can solve many types of difficulty.
3. (law enforcement, slang) A shotgun shell designed for breaching doors.

Translations

a key that opens a set of several locks

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: шперц m (šperc)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: moedersleutel m, loper (nl) m
• Finnish: yleisavain
• French: passe-partout (fr) m, passepartout (fr) m, passe (fr) m
• German: Generalschlüssel (de) m, Hauptschlüssel (de) m, Zentralschlüssel (de) m, Passepartout (de) m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tolvajkulcs (hu), álkulcs (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 親鍵 (oyakagi)
• Macedonian: калауз m (kalauz)
• Malay: kunci induk
• Manx: ard-ogher f
• Portuguese: chave mestra (pt) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: llave maestra f
• Swedish: huvudnyckel (sv) c
• Tagalog: liyabe-maestra
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• skeleton key

Anagrams

• keymaster, keystream, stream key