phone tapping

noun

British

: the act of secretly placing a microphone inside a telephone in order to hear and record private conversations

Examples of phone tapping in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This is all part of Harry’s civil lawsuit against ANL for unlawful information gathering, including phone tapping and the use of private investigators. — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 2 Apr. 2026

The scandal led to revelations of more intrusive means such as phone tapping, home bugging and using deception to obtain flight information and medical records. — Staff and Wire Reports., USA TODAY, 7 June 2023

Petro fired Benedetti as Ambassador to Caracas on Friday amid a widening probe into allegations of phone tapping and abuse of power. — Matthew Bristow, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is in court this week as one of several high-profile names suing Associated Papers, which owns the Daily Mail, over allegations of phone tapping and other invasions of privacy. — Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023

Rhymes for phone tapping

• handicapping
• overlapping
• wiretapping
• bootstrapping
• entrapping
• kidnaping
• kidnapping
• recapping
• remapping
• unwrapping
• capping
• clapping