Meaning & use
Phrogger
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A person who secretly lives inside someone else's home without the owner's knowledge, hiding and moving through the house while the residents are away or asleep.
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Police say the phrogger had been living in the attic and stealing food for weeks before anyone noticed.
True-crime podcasts have popularized stories about phroggers who go undetected for months.
A note on using this word
Phrogger comes from "phrogging," a term coined online — a play on "frogging," as in jumping between homes — to describe this unusual form of covert squatting.
Words with a similar meaning
squatter
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