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crossed line

n. (context telephony English) situation when portions of a second call are audible to persons on a telephone connection.

Usage examples of "crossed line".

The subdued crackle of the two-way radio down the hall was a constant background chatter, like being on the telephone with a crossed line.

And it was clear what had gone wrong with the communications connection from 1975: somehow, a crossed line had occurred, giving them contact not with their own selves as they had assumed, but with some other version of themselves who were from some other 1975 and had arrived in some other 1939.

Only a week before, he had overheard a field telephone conversation on a crossed line between a major and a captain.

More than likely this phantom phone call was the result of a crossed line, or some Hollywood hack pitching a screenplay, or even an undercover LEP operative trying to phone home.

I was lying under the Deivoxiphone listening to the Voice of God but we had a crossed line and all I could hear was opera.

Perhaps I have a crossed line with one of the hospital cameras used to monitor very ill patients.