claim jumper

1. 1.

   one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim

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Questions about claim jumper

What does claim jumper mean?

claim jumper means "one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim".

Is claim jumper a common word?

claim jumper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.