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leavesdropping 

To read someone’s tea leaves, coffee grounds, wine residue or other sediment for the purpose of prediction without permission.

Origin: Tea with Annie.
Did you look in her tea cup without asking? That’s leavesdropping!
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leavesdropping 

Da telltale loosening and allowing to fall of individual foliage-units from a tree in which you're hiding in an effort to spy on someone below you; da random sprinklings of said released chlorophyll-bearers will likely alert even a mildly-observant surveillance-target dat he is currently not "alone with his thoughts", but has company from above.
There was nobody underneath da tree-limb dat George McFly was perching on to perform his "peeping Tom" routine through Lorraine's Baines's window, so even if there had been a bit of resulting leavesdropping, George's lecherous shenanigans would still likely have gone unnoticed.
leavesdropping by QuacksO January 27, 2023