tickle the wire (English, verb)
expansion: tickle the wire (third-person singular simple present tickles the wire, present participle tickling the wire, simple past and past participle tickled the wire)
Senses:
topics: criminology
government
human-sciences
law
law-enforcement
sciences
glosses: To create a situation that will encourage the target of a criminal probe to speak and divulge information on a wiretapped telephone.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: tickles the wire
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tickling the wire
tags: participle
present
form: tickled the wire
tags: participle
past
form: tickled the wire
tags: past