Definitions
listen without the speaker's knowledge
Word origin
From eaves + drop; the "listening" sense derives from the notion of the listener standing in the area denoted by the physical sense.
Used in a sentence
“I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal.”
“[…] Eastern Red Bat will eavesdrop on the sonar calls of other red bats to locate potential insect prey.”
“Frog-biting midges also depend on eavesdropping for reproduction, and one would predict similarly strong selection to evolve auditory adaptations for hearing and localizing calls of their hosts.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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