cross the wires

English

Verb

cross the wires (third-person singular simple present crosses the wires, present participle crossing the wires, simple past and past participle crossed the wires)

  1. Of a news story: to break; to be published.
    • 2009, Laurence H. Meyer, A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View, page 16:
      He called me shortly after the story crossed the wires and cursed at me nonstop for minutes.
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