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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Sneak current

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01 A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  1. 1.
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.(Elec.)