phone tappingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfəʊn ˌtæp.ɪŋ/us/ˈfoʊn ˌtæp.ɪŋ/the activity of secretly fitting a special device to someone's phone in order to listen to their phone conversations without being noticed
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