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urban explorers

urban explorers is the plural of urban explorer.

Meaning of urban explorer

Noun

urban explorer (plural urban explorers)

  1. A person who explores restricted urban areas such as abandonments, tunnels, roofs, construction sites, etc. Certain non-urban sites can also count, such as mines, quarries, and grain/missile silos.
    • Ms. Passer, the friend of Ms Timofeyeva, said that she could understand why “somebody who has never heard of urban explorers would be suspicious” when Russians armed with cameras and drones got caught sneaking into a military site.2023 March 3, Andrew Higgins, “They Sneaked Into a Derelict Arms Plant: Instagrammers or Spies?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about urban explorers

What is urban explorers the plural of?
Urban explorers is the plural of urban explorer.

Words near urban explorers in the dictionary

  1. urban districts
  2. urban dweller
  3. urban dwellers
  4. urban exploration
  5. urban explorer
  6. urban explorers
  7. urban fabric
  8. urban fabrics
  9. urban fantasies
  10. urban fantasy
  11. urban fee

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