Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about.
- noun One who snoops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pry about; go about in a prying or sneaking way.
- noun One who snoops, or pries or sneaks about; a snooper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To be
devious andcunning so as not to be seen - verb To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
- noun The act of snooping
- noun One who snoops
- noun A private detective
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
- verb watch, observe, or inquire secretly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the word snoop should probably raise a red flag.
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March 3, 2008 at 10: 58 am why is your name snoop dogg?
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The card can scan for both a and b networks without losing the current configuration, or you can use what it nicely calls a snoop mode which performs more extensive frequency checking.
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The card can scan for both a and b networks without losing the current configuration, or you can use what it nicely calls a snoop mode which performs more extensive frequency checking.
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The Telegraph reports today that "Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to" snoop "on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose."
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to "snoop" on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to "snoop" on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Without any need to "snoop", it provided me with a dashboard into the productivity of my news organization.
Facebook’s Core College Student Users Laugh At Attempts To Use It For Business - Publishing 2.0 2007
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Like the guest from hell, Dickens was the kind of snoop who peers under the rugs.
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Since OneStatFree will let you know if anyone tries downloading the file (and will log the time, IP address, and approximate location of the snoop), you’ll know the snoop was there even if the he tries covering his tracks by marking the message as unread.
Check Your Email Account for Impostors | Lifehacker Australia 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word snoop
From the etymology section:
"Dutch snoepen, to eat on the sly."
December 6, 2011