NONCE

Nonce

In the United Kingdom, nonce is a slang word for a sex offender or child sexual abuser. Although the term traditionally referred specifically to sex offenders, it later became a more general term of abuse approximately synonymous with "idiot".

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nonce

Noun

  1. The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
    That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
  2. A nonce word.
    I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
  3. A number, usually generated randomly or from the time, used once in a cryptographic protocol, to prevent replay attacks.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
    That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!
  2. A stupid or worthless person.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
    In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce.
  2. In a security engineering context, a value used only once.

Adjective

  1. denoting something occurring once.


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