Tingle table
n.— «Returns go to the Extracting Unit where a finer sort is made. As many as 300 clerks at “Tingle Tables” separate returns with checks from those without checks.…After being “Tingled,” returns are sent to the Examination Branch.» —“Andover federal income tax service center busy as filing deadline nears” Sunday Sun (Lowell, Massachusetts) Mar. 17, 1974. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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