snoop
snoop
Definition
☆ snoop (sno̵̅o̅p)
intransitive verb
Informal to look about in a sneaking, prying way
Etymology: Du snoepen, to eat snacks on the sly
noun
- a person who snoops
- the act of snooping
snoop′y adjective snoop′i·er, snoop′i·est
snoop
Usage Examples
Object
- round: Snooping round the cave was really eerie, a bit like being in a ghost town.
- power: Ironically, the congressman was murdered because he wasn't going to vote for a bill to give the NSA even broader snooping powers.
- eye: FTP passwords are exchanged in plain text over the internet, for any snooping eyes to sieze upon.
- system: In Sweden the Social Wage is claimable by all, it therefore needs no Kafka-esque snooping system and thereby practically pays for itself.
- device: Using surveillance from satellites, bugs and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing e. .
Preposition: on
- user: Spyware and adware is advertising supported software that allows its publishers to snoop on a computer user 's internet activity.
- consumer: Hackers are finding them an easy target to snoop on consumers ' laptop PCs and, eventually, their employers ' networks.
- player: Wizards may snoop on any player at any time.
- network: How many of those 15,000 developers will be snooping on the network do you think?
- datum: It also prevents them from snooping on data in your home network.
Possessives
- rap: Snoop's rap works well and I'm surprised it's counted as a bonus track.
Converse of object
- have: Whilst its up there, you can have a good snoop around underneath.
Modifying Another Word
- not: Fast searching with all of your game data held locally, we do not snoop or pass data back to our servers.
Modifies a noun
- dogg: Snoop Dogg banned for life from British Airways Rapper Snoop Dogg has been banned for life from British Airways flights.
- round: And while Parry prepares to take a snoop round another Royal home, we can't help fearing for his safety.
- dog: I have yet to hear a song that isnt by snoop dog or some crappy belgian trance song.
Followed by a transitive particle
- around: Meanwhile a television crew is snooping around the island trying to dig the dirt.
Preposition: of
- emails: Even last week, the government was seeking to add to Ripa, the act that allows official snooping of emails and the internet.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: It doesn't look like you've been snooping around too much.
