Noun
skeleton key (plural skeleton keys)
- A very simple design of key that usually has a cylindrical shaft (sometimes called a "shank") and a single, minimal flat, rectangular tooth or "bit".
- A key that has parts filed away so that it will open a range of locks.
- A master key.
Translations
key that opens a range of locks
- Bulgarian: шперц (šperc)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 百合匙 (baak3 hap6 si4)
- Mandarin: 萬能鑰匙/万能钥匙 (zh) (wànnéng yàoshi)
- Dutch: loper (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: yleisavain
- French: passe-partout (fr) m
- Greek: πασπαρτού (el) (paspartoú)
- Hungarian: álkulcs (hu)
- Italian: passe-partout (it) m
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: adultera clavis f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: universalnøkkel m
- Nynorsk: universalnykel m, universalnøkkel m
- Portuguese: chave-mestra f
- Russian: ключ от всех двере́й m (ključ ot vsex dveréj)
- Spanish: llave maestra f
- Tagalog: halipsusi, gansuwa
- Thai: กุญแจผี (th) (gun-jɛɛ-pǐi)
- Vietnamese: chìa khoá vạn năng
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