OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 6078

tap

/tæp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chuzar • intervenir • pinchar
To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
They can’t tap the phone without a warrant.
mitchener. Why didn't you telephone? / balsquith. They tap the telephone. Every switchboard in London is in their hands, or in those of their young men.