eavesdropper

Other forms: eavesdroppers

Definitions of eavesdropper

1. noun

   a secret listener to private conversations
   types:

   phone tapper, tapper, wiretapper

   someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire

   type of:

   attender, auditor, hearer, listener

   someone who listens attentively

   snoop, snooper

   a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others