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US
/ˈɪntɝˌɫoʊpɝ/
]
[ UK /ˌɪntəlˈəʊpɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪntəlˈəʊpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
How To Use interloper In A Sentence
- This time last year I seemed at best a guest and at worst an interloper in a foreign space.
- We need a disruptive interloper to shake things up. Times, Sunday Times
- Many ships were taken as prizes by awaiting interlopers and pirates, and much of the booty spilled into the seas during swash buckling raids.
- How do you like to deal with wireless interlopers?
- The pair also cooked up a wholly unlikely urban interloper, the Werdplatz-palais, a social centre and soup kitchen built in 2008 in Zurich, cheek-by-jowl with the stock exchange. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
- Security did not prevent an interloper from getting onto the stage at the opening ceremony.
- Unfortunately, there is no simple way to 'dislodge' the interlopers. Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas
- A strong sense of clanship pervaded these villages, making men from other clans feel like interlopers.
- This popularity lag is probably the source of the modern concern that “for a moment” is the more original, more pure sense, and “in a moment” the interloper. 2010 January « Motivated Grammar
- But we began to enjoy being interlopers in this other dimension.