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interloper

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌɪntəˈləʊ̯pə/
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/ˌɪntəˈləʊ̯pə/ · /ˌɪntɚˈloʊ̯pɚ/ · /ˌɪntəˈlæɔ̯pə/

Definition of interloper

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.
    “They disliked the interloper, and forced him to leave.”
    “In a button-up plaid shirt with an unwieldly suitcase, he is an interloper from another world – one whose first social faux pas is to make his way slowly through the various gates and arrive at the imposing front door on foot, rather than wait to be picked up from the train station by a servant.”
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noun

  1. One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.
    “They disliked the interloper, and forced him to leave.”
    “In a button-up plaid shirt with an unwieldly suitcase, he is an interloper from another world – one whose first social faux pas is to make his way slowly through the various gates and arrive at the imposing front door on foot, rather than wait to be picked up from the train station by a servant.”
  2. (obsolete)An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.

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Etymology

From inter- + loper (“runner, rover”), as in landloper (“vagrant”) (from lope (“to leap, to jump”) (originally dialectal)). Originally spelt enterloper and used in specific sense, “unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies”, later general sense of “self-interested intruder” from 1630s.

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