All 3 Uses
interloper
in
The Interlopers, by Saki
(Edited)
- THE INTERLOPERS.
interlopers = people who, without invitation, insert themselves
- We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us.
- And if we choose to make peace among our people there is none other to interfere, no interlopers from outside...
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Definitions:
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(1)
(interloper) someone or something that, without invitation, inserts itself -- such as an uninvited guest at a party or a species that invades non-native territory
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)