What is "bugging"

Usage examples of "bugging".

For Bob Arctor, for example, it had become murky now: during this afternoon along the San Diego Freeway, while he and his two buddies had been within foot-seconds of being wiped out, the authorities, on his behalf, had been--he hoped--properly bugging their house, and if this had been done, then possibly he would be safe from now on from the kind of thing that had happened today.

But the main thing is, did the bugging crew arrive and get all the monitors in and finish up?

And whatever additional information the bugging crew's boss, plus other experts involved in this operation, wanted to dump on him.

Arctor said, wondering what kind of police bugging crew would have a member who smoked a joint in front of the others while on the job.

The scenario was the same - it was a suspected IRA safe house and we were to help TOS plan a bugging operation.

Hotel security managers are useful informers for intelligence services because they have access to the hotel guestlist and can be helpful in bugging operations.

There was no way to predict which table Kiddie and Fahd would sit at, bugging every table would be expensive and time-consuming, and the sound from the fountain was just the sort of gentle white noise which is excellent for swamping microphones tuned to pick up distant conversations.

So even if they had not already learnt of my intended `guilty' plea by bugging my discussions with Wadham and Davies, they would have known from copying the `rule 37' papers in my cell.

The message would get back to the authorities one way or another, whether through the bugging of my hotel telephone or through word of mouth from one of the journalists.

Rayford had told him he had heard Carpathia himself, through the Condor 216's bugging device, give the order for the bombing of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

He was bugging my office, burglarizing my home, and looking in my safe.

This guy was bugging me, but if Budd was being considered for something important I felt I'd better stay there and sing his praises.

I mean, with agents bugging them about that kid-" "What about Gallagher or Jeremiah?

The intelligence experts of nations around the world would spend their time breaking into, bugging, de-bugging, bugging each other's bugs, tripping over each other, trying to find out what was happening on the 35th floor of the Stonewall Hotel.

I got to wait here to get a phone call, and there's some nut that was bugging me before and said he was coming back, and if you'd sit next to me, then he won't give me any problems, okay?