A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr ("wire, metal thread, wire-ornament"), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz ("wire"), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros ("a twist, thread, cord, wire"), from *weh₁y-.
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