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eavesdropper

eavesdroppers

Definitions of eavesdropper
  1. noun
    a secret listener to private conversations
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    types:
    phone tapper, tapper, wiretapper
    someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
    type of:
    attender, auditor, hearer, listener
    someone who listens attentively
    snoop, snooper
    a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
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