Squinting modifier. "People who eat sugar seldom stay thin." See how the adverb "seldom" is positioned in a way that it could be modifying "eat" or it could be modifying "stay"? That's called a ...

Squinting modifiers are misplaced words or phrases that are placed in a sentence so that they could refer to one or two parts of a sentence.

Yes, squinting (or ambiguous, as they’re sometimes called) modifiers are misplaced words or phrases that are placed in a sentence so that they could refer to one or two parts of a sentence.