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harmonica bugs

harmonica bugs is the plural of harmonica bug.

Meaning of harmonica bug

Noun

harmonica bug (plural harmonica bugs)

  1. An electronic eavesdropping device (bug) that attaches to a landline telephone and is activated or deactivated by a specific tone. When activated, it prevents the telephone from ringing but activates its microphone to transmit to another telephone at a remote location.
    • The most interesting device for tapping a telephone, though, is still the old reliable “harmonica bug,” which was invented in the early sixties by an electronics wizard from Lower Manhattan, Emanuel Mittleman.1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No Place to Hide, page xii

Questions about harmonica bugs

What is harmonica bugs the plural of?
Harmonica bugs is the plural of harmonica bug.

Words near harmonica bugs in the dictionary

  1. harmonic series
  2. harmonic tremor
  3. harmonic tremors
  4. harmonica
  5. harmonica bug
  6. harmonica bugs
  7. harmonicaist
  8. harmonicaists
  9. harmonical
  10. harmonically
  11. harmonically bound

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