Telefelony

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.

    ""We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year."

Example

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""We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year."

Etymology

From tele- + felony.

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