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snoop

verb
/snuːp/

Etymology

From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.

  1. borrowed from snoepen — “to pry, eat in secret, sneak”

Definitions

  1. To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.

  2. To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.

    • If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.

  3. To steal.

    • 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The act of snooping.

    2. One who snoops.

      • Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.

    3. A private detective.

      • She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
      • Garrison's snoops regularly stole Kirkwood's mail while he was in New Orleans—only a federal offense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at snoop. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at snoop. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at snoop

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA