squatter
One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
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That's rich, him calling the White House his dad's house. It's still the People's House and his father is just the squatter who's stinking and trashing it up. Dude needs to get over himself.
Trump may claim that his ballroom is privately funded, but it is being built over land that does NOT belong to him, is not his property. He’s no different from a squatter building a tin shack over public lands.
I can’t get physical medical care consistently or in an efficient manner which has caused my income to be like $70 a year so if you also want to take the brain drugs, I’ll just become a squatter.
This needs to stop. NOW! Blame the old demented squatter and that hateful SM…
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One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
1970, George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3rd Edition, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gS3RoUYJSi8C&pg=PA757&lpg=PA757&dq=%22squatter%22|%22squatters%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&sou…
“That's rich, him calling the White House his dad's house. It's still the People's House and his father is just the squatter who's stinking and trashing it up. Dude needs to get over himself.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Trump may claim that his ballroom is privately funded, but it is being built over land that does NOT belong to him, is not his property. He’s no different from a squatter building a tin shack over public lands.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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One who squats; one who sits down idly.
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(Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
: Boldrewood was a squatter, a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in Robbery Under Arms (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in The Sydney Mail in 1881—…
“I can’t get physical medical care consistently or in an efficient manner which has caused my income to be like $70 a year so if you also want to take the brain drugs, I’ll just become a squatter.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This needs to stop. NOW! Blame the old demented squatter and that hateful SM…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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- squatter camp72%
A South African term for an informal settlement or shantytown — a community of makeshift dwellings built on land without legal title, typically on the outskirts of cities. The phrase is widely used in South African English in both official and everyday contexts, though it carries the social weight of poverty and inequality associated with such settlements.
- squatter camp71%
(South Africa) A settlement of makeshift shacks.
- squattage71%
(Australia, historical) A holding occupied by a squatter (an occupier of Crown land or a large-scale land owner).