Phone Tapper (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The phone tapper had been listening in on the businessman's conversations for weeks before being discovered.
- Detectives caught the phone tapper trying to tap into the phone line of a key witness in the trial.
- As a former phone tapper for the government, she had unique skills that she now used as a private investigator.
- The movie depicted a phone tapper as a hero who helped bring down a corrupt politician.
- Law enforcement officials arrested the phone tapper who had been intercepting sensitive information from the company's phone lines.