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a home address that officially doesn't exist.
means a secret location used to hide people—spies, witnesses, refugees—from those hunting them.
from cold war spycraft borrowed the phrase from earlier criminal slang for a hideout, then bureaucracies made it official terminology.
blandness by designboring exteriors are the best disguise.
witness protectionu.s. marshals have run it since 1971.
underground railroadsafe houses predate the term by centuries.