tingle table
n.— «First letter openings are made by an automatic slicer, and all contents go quickly to the “tingle table,” where employes separate taxpayer checks and their forms from those due refunds.» —“Taxpayers Dealing With Cool Computer” by Thomas D. Williams Hartford Courant (Connecticut) Apr. 17, 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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