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(using Tor Browser 13.5.4)   
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crypto+definition 
>crypto /krip'to/    
>noun 
>  1. One who covertly supports a certain doctrine, group, or party.    
>  2. Cryptography.    
>  3. A secret supporter or follower.            
>adjective  
>  1. Secret or covert.            
>The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language, 5th
>Edition * More at Wordnik https://www.wordnik.com/words/crypto             
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see also:   
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crypto+etymology                
>...             
>https://www.etymonline.com/word/crypto-  
>crypto-       
>before vowels crypt-, word-forming element meaning "secret" or "hidden,     
>not evident or obvious," used in forming English words at least since   
>1760 (crypto-Calvinianism), from Latinized form of Greek kryptos   
>"hidden, concealed, secret" (see crypt; the Greek combining form was   
>krypho-).      
>In 19c. often of secret religious faith; from 1870s in scientific 
>words; since c. 1945 typically of hidden political loyalties. Crypto-               
>fascist is attested from 1937; crypto-communist from 1946. Hence, as               
>an abstracted noun, crypto "person who conceals a political adherence"    
>(1946).              
>also from 1760    
>Entries linking to crypto-  
>crypt (n.)             
>early 15c., cripte, "grotto, cavern," from Latin crypta "vault,  
>cavern," from Greek krypte "a vault, crypt" (short for krypte kamara     
>"hidden vault"), fem. of kryptos "hidden," verbal adjective from
>kryptein "to hide," which is of uncertain origin. Comparison has been   
>made to Old Church Slavonic kryjo, kryti "to hide," Lithuanian krauti   
>"to pile up." Beekes writes that krypto "is formally and semantically    
>reminiscent of [kalypto]; the verbs may have influenced each other." 
>For this, see calypto-. But he adds, "However, since there is no good   
>IE etymology, the word could be Pre-Greek." Meaning "underground   
>burial vault or chapel in a church" is attested by 1789.    
>cryptarchy (n.)    
>"secret government," 1798; see crypto- + -archy. 
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(ergo all cryptos are communists hidden in burial vaults and churches)