Crossword clues for interloper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interloper \In"ter*lo`per\ (?; 277), n. [Pref. inter- + D. looper a runner, fr. loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap, and cf. Elope.] One who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously.
The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the
professions.
--I. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, enterloper, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between" + -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer," also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to leap" (see leap (v.)). General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) An unlicensed or illegitimate trader. 2 One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.
WordNet
n. someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission [syn: intruder, trespasser]
Wikipedia
Interloper, Interlopers or The Interlopers may refer to:
- Interloper (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Interloper (album), by Carbon Based Lifeforms
- Interloper Films, a production company
- Interlopers, a 2001 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster
- The Interloper, a 1918 American drama film directed by Oscar Apfel
- The Interlopers (novel)'', a Matt Helm spy novel by Donald Hamilton
- "The Interlopers", a short story by Saki
Interloper is the third studio album by Swedish ambient duo Carbon Based Lifeforms, released in 2010.
Usage examples of "interloper".
Christmas Eve Forewarned The Interlopers Quail Seed Canossa The Threat Excepting Mrs.
The Massiliotes guarded their independence fiercely, despite the fact that they could not afford to offend Rome, that upstart interloper in the previously Greek and Phoenician world.
He smiled with what he hoped the interloper would see as welcome, though his heart contracted at the sight of the troops accompanying the Yanqui leader.
Only the rare aion has not had its domain challenged by these interlopers.
But the success of the spell meant that as long as she and Gamaliel raised no hand against them, the beasts would leave the two interlopers alone.
For she now not only considered him as a mercenary wretch, who had slighted her attractions for the sordid gratifications of avarice, but also as an interloper, who wanted to intercept her fortune, in the odious character of a father-in-law.
Maybe later both would have the influence to tell offensive interlopers and political hacks to find some gravitons and go fly a kite.
I am a Scholar of the University, not the interloper everyone insists on making me out to be.
After Aurella had taken control of the city, however, Bebbens had been reassigned as the Chief Diplomat for Murderous Interlopers, which basically involved telling prisoners that they could either scram or face a nice, hearty execution.
Or, as was usually the case, Murderous Interlopers Cleverly Disguised As Traveling Salesmen.
Oh, yes, this particular one was a very useful thing in that it gave the forces of King and Caliph an excellent legal and moral reason for driving out or trying to drive out any interlopers on their royal and rewarding possessions, but even so, a modern, realistic man such as himself still had to admit in his own soul that it all was a matter of nationalistic politics and human greed bearing a tissue-thin gilding of religion.
Patrick climbed into the bakkie feeling that he, not Jim, was the interloper.
The Toys of Peace Contents: The Toys of Peace Louise Tea The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh The Wolves of Cernogratz Louis The Guests The Penance The Phantom Luncheon A Bread and Butter Miss Bertie's Christmas Eve Forewarned The Interlopers Quail Seed Canossa The Threat Excepting Mrs.
For the most part, the local germs tended to leave the indigestible human interlopers alone, but there were a few indigenous diseases which were as stubbornly persistent in attacking them as shuttlesquitos or bearcats.
They went back together, and he crawled next to her trustingly, the interloper forgotten, at least temporarily.