phone tapper

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   someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire

   Synonymstapperwiretapper

   Broadereavesdropper

Questions about phone tapper

What does phone tapper mean?

phone tapper means "someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire".

What is another word for phone tapper?

Close synonyms include tapper, wiretapper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phone tapper a common word?

phone tapper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.