单词 | home invader |
释义 | home invadern. 1. A member of a foreign force invading one's home nation. rare. ΚΠ 1823 Ld. Byron Age of Bronze vii. 19 These worst, these home invaders, felt and feel The new Numantine soul of old Castile. 2. Chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand (originally U.S.). A perpetrator of a home invasion; a burglar, an intruder. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun] housebreakera1400 burglary1533 burglar1541 burglarer1598 mill1607 mill-ken1667 hoister1708 crack1749 cracksman1819 screwsman1819 screwer1831 crib-cracker1879 cracker1886 key worker1895 houseman1904 home invader1907 in and out man1961 1907 Atlanta Constit. 19 Aug. 1/3 (heading) Husband kills home invader. 1934 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. 12/3 (headline) Ingalls home invader held. Jerry Jennings, restaurant worker, captured early Wednesday morning hiding in the apartment of Mrs. Abbot Ingalls..was held yesterday..on a charge of burglary. 1975 F. Hohimer (title) The home invaders: confessions of a cat burglar. 1985 Chicago Tribune 14 Jan. 5 Rappaport attacked Hendricks' contention that the murders were committed by home invaders. 2001 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 16 July There was relief when Hutt police finally arrested a knife-wielding robber and home invader earlier this year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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