Collyer
n.— «Still today, New York City firefighters call junk-jammed apartments “Collyers.”» —“Hoarding hermits? A typist’s true tale” by Jeff Pearlman Newsday Nov. 3, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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