Spike Microphone (Noun)
Meaning
A contact microphone for listening through walls.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- A spike microphone is often used by law enforcement to gather audio evidence of criminal activities by listening through walls.
- The private investigator caught the cheating spouse by planting a spike microphone in the wall adjacent to the hotel room.
- A spike microphone can be attached to a stethoscope to amplify the sounds being picked up through the wall.
- Police detectives relied heavily on the information gathered from a spike microphone to build a strong case against the defendants.
- The film crew used a spike microphone to capture realistic sound effects of footsteps through a hotel room wall for the action movie.