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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

  1. a person who snoops
  2. the act of snooping

snoop Related Forms
snoopy adjective snoopi·er, snoopi·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.

Browse dictionary entries near snoop

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