phone tapper meaning

Noun: phone tapper

1. Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
   - tapper, wiretapper

Derived forms: phone tappers

Type of: eavesdropper

• tapper:    Noun: tapper  ...
• -phone:     /-fōn/  &nbs ...
• on the phone:    [American slang]Go ...

Examples

1. It's like an anti-Mafia automated phone tapper that listens to every conversation in New Jersey and sets off a bell when it hears the phrase " horse head inna bed ."