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peek

/piːk/

peek verb: to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. Also the misspelling of pique.

Verb

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
    • Close your eyes, and no peeking!
  2. (informal, intransitive) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
    • A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, →ISBN
    • Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You, →ISBN
  3. (informal, intransitive, especially first-person shooters) To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
    • Sniper watching the site; don't peek.
  4. (informal, transitive) To take a look at; to check out.
    • Peek my new shoes.
  5. (dated, informal, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
    • We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page 279

Noun (1)

peek (plural peeks)

  1. (informal) A quick glance or look.

Noun (2) capitalized: PEEK

PEEK

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of polyetheretherketone.

Proper noun capitalized: Peek

Peek

  1. A surname.

Also used as

peek is also the misspelling of pique.

peek meaning in Bengali and Persian

peek in Bengali

উঁকি দিতে

peek in Persian

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
نگاه دزدانه negâhe dozdâna

Examples of peek in a sentence

  • I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.
  • I was able to get a sneak peek at the guest list.
  • Visit the website for a sneak peek of their new movie.

All 40 example sentences with peek

Forms of peek

Verb
third-person singular presentpeeks
present participlepeeking
past participlepeeked
pastpeeked
Noun
pluralpeeks

Origin of peek

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).

Words formed from peek

Phrases with peek

Words that rhyme with peek

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Questions about peek

What does peek mean?
Peek means to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
What is peek in Bengali?
Peek in Bengali is উঁকি দিতে. See Peek meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is peek?
Peek can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce peek?
Peek is pronounced /piːk/.
What is the past tense of peek?
The past tense of peek is peeked.

Words near peek in the dictionary

  1. peeing on someone's cornflakes
  2. peeing one's pants
  3. peeing oneself
  4. peejay
  5. peejays
  6. peek
  7. peek wallet
  8. peek wallets
  9. peek-a-boo
  10. peek-a-boo bra
  11. peek-a-boo bras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peek (page history and authors); PEEK (page history and authors); Peek (page history and authors); peek (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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