porch pirate

English

Noun

porch pirate (plural porch pirates)

1. (slang, criminology, neologism) A criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.
   • 2018, Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader, page 271:

     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.

   • 2019 November 1, Lauren Smiley, “The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

Related terms

• Thesaurus:thief

Translations

criminal

• Finnish: pakettivaras
• Polish: osoba kradnąca przesyłki z ganków f

References

• Sean O'Shea (2018 March 26) “Porch pirates: Your home delivery may be stolen”, in Global News‎^[2]

Further reading

• Mail robbery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia