Bugging
Listen in
Listen in verb - Listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation.
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The CIA once attempted to deploy a cat rigged with a surgically-implanted bugging device to listen in on Soviet diplomats' park bench conversations.
Source: Cyborg
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Listen in and Bugging. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bugging/listen_in
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