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Where you become a rumor — too clever to find, too smart to leave a trail.

means A secret place where someone hides, especially to avoid being caught or seen.

from A straightforward compound of the verb 'hide' plus 'out,' built the same way as 'lookout' or 'hangout.' 'Hide' itself is ancient — Old English 'hȳdan,' to conceal, with relatives across the old Germanic tongues. The 'hideout' as a noun for a fugitive's lair is a fairly recent American coinage, roughly turn-of-the-20th-century, with the flavor of outlaws and dime novels clinging to it ever since.

word roots
From Old Norse, meaning skin or concealment
outlaw favorite
Butch Cassidy's gang used remote 'Hole-in-the-Wall'
animal version
Octopuses build den fortresses from collected shells and rocks
best ones
Look boring on purpose to avoid attention
for instance

al capone's hideout — scarface's fortress in miami beach, florida during prohibition

jesse james cave — outlaw hideout in missouri used during the 1870s-1880s

bin laden compound abbottabad — pakistan residence where osama bin laden was killed in 2011

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