A code that serves to unlock something, such as an electronic door or a car stereo (as an antitheft measure).(noun)
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Use "keycode" in a sentence
"The winner will receive a "keycode" unlocking the software for all platforms."
"McNeil shouldered it open and, guns drawn, they swept in and down the narrow, carpeted hallway to the second door with the keycode."
"They followed her through a door marked employees only, down a narrow, carpeted hallway to another door with a keycode, through that door and down a flight of stairs to a bleak, gray, wide concrete corridor and up to a steel-reinforced door with a biometric lock."