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gawpers

noun

plural of gawper, chiefly British

as in spies

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Slow Horses stars Oldman as Lamb, a brilliant but cantankerous leader of dysfunctional spies who have made career-ending mistakes and end up at a dumping ground MI5 unit known as Slough House.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Swashbuckling adventures and war epics proliferated in the ’30s and ’40s, while things took a turn toward spies, cops, assassins, and sci-fi in later generations.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

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This leaves even the most secure guest room doors vulnerable to intruders.

— Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
In June 2025, Lopez, while experiencing paranoia after using methamphetamine and believing intruders were trying to break into his Arlington apartment, fired the gunshots into his neighbor’s home, the DA’s office said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2026

Definition of intruders

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The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers.

— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2026

Definition of rubberneckers

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The interlopers were contrabandistas, Native Pacific Northwesterners brought by American merchants operating out of Hawaii and heading to the Mexican coast to hunt otters without a license.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026

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