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porch pirate

porch pirate noun: a criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.

Noun

porch pirate (plural porch pirates)

  1. (slang) A criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.
    • After Bohlan's home security system recorded a porch pirate stealing packages from his doorstep, he reported the theft to the police department...and volunteered his own doorstep as a place where police could leave "bait" packages to catch porch pirates.2018, Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader, page 271
    • As Banks saw it, Fairley had been caught in a web of surveillance, gentrification, and racism, in which vigilante neighbors targeted her for anything that went missing, when, in fact, many other porch pirates were also stealing in Potrero.2019 November 1, Lauren Smiley, “The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This”, in The Atlantic

Forms of porch pirate

pluralporch pirates

Questions about porch pirate

What does porch pirate mean?
Porch pirate means a criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.
What part of speech is porch pirate?
Porch pirate is a noun.
What is the plural of porch pirate?
The plural of porch pirate is porch pirates.

Words near porch pirate in the dictionary

  1. Porcellos
  2. porch
  3. porch monkey
  4. porch monkeys
  5. porch piracy
  6. porch pirate
  7. porch pirates
  8. porch swing
  9. porch swings
  10. Porche
  11. porched

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