Tingle table

Tingle table
 n.β€” Β«Workers process the forms at something called Tingle tables, so named for Jim Tingle, an IRS employee who designed the tables back in the 1960s.Β» β€”β€œDue date to file U.S. taxes just around the corner” in Ogden, Utah CNN Mar. 29, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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