"tickle the wire" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tickles the wire [present, singular, third-person], tickling the wire [participle, present], tickled the wire [participle, past], tickled the wire [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tickle the wire (third-person singular simple present tickles the wire, present participle tickling the wire, simple past and past participle tickled the wire)
  1. (criminology, law enforcement, idiomatic) To create a situation that will encourage the target of a criminal probe to speak and divulge information on a wiretapped telephone. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Criminology, Law enforcement
    Sense id: en-tickle_the_wire-en-verb-pYdfoXM4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Topics: criminology, government, human-sciences, law, law-enforcement, sciences

Inflected forms

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