snoop
/snuːp/
snoop verb: to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
Verb
snoop (third-person singular simple present snoops, present participle snooping, simple past and past participle snooped)
- To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
- 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.
- “Look, I tell you what, Mac. Seeing how as you're my best friend” “Yeah!” “Maybe you can look into it for me. Go snoop around the shop.” “Can-can I stop you for a second? I'm sorry. I'm a little confused here. You-you just said that he was your best friend? How is he your best friend over me?”...2008 September 25, David Hornsby, “Mac's Banging the Waitress” (1:38 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day)
- 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.'1956, Charles Hamilton, The Banishing of Billy Bunter
Noun
snoop (plural snoops)
- The act of snooping.
- One who snoops.
- Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.
- 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.1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12
snoop meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
snoop in Tamil
- அறியாவண்ணம் பதுங்கி செல், தனக்கு தொடர்பில்லா செய்திகளில் தலையி, அழையா வீட்டில் நுழை, வட்டமிட்டு ஒட்டுப்பார், திருட்டுத்தனஞ் செய்
snoop in Urdu
- جاسوس, تاک جھانک کرنا
snoop in Bengali
- গুপ্তচরবৃত্তি করা, লুকিয়ে দেখা
snoop in Malayalam
- be inquisitive, pry, inquire
- ആവശ്യമില്ലാത്ത കാര്യത്തിൽ തലയിടുക, ഒളിഞ്ഞു നോക്കുക, വേണ്ടാത്തിടത്ത് എത്തിനോക്കുക, വകതിരിവില്ലാതെ ചുഴിഞ്ഞു നോക്കുക, ചികഞ്ഞന്വേഷിക്കുക, അറിയാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുക
- explore, investigate, search
- അനേഷണം നടത്തുക, പരിശോധിക്കുക, സൂക്ഷ്മാന്വേഷണം നടത്തുക, ആരായുക, പരിശോധനിച്ചുനോക്കുക, കൂലങ്കഷമായി പരിശോധിക്കുക
- nose, search, look
- അന്വേഷണം, തിരയൽ, ആരായൽ, തിരക്കം, തേടൽ, ഘ്രാണനം
- snooper, busybody, meddler
- അനാവശ്യകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ തലയിടുന്നവൻ, കുതുകി, കുതൂഹലി, ജിജ്ഞാസു, അമിതജിജ്ഞാസു, ആരാന്റെ കാര്യത്തിൽ തലയിടുന്നവൻ
More languagesFewer languages
- snoop in Kannada
- ಮೂಗುತೂರಿಸು, ತಲೆದೂರಿಸು, ಬೇಹುಗಾರಿಕೆ ನಡೆಸು, ಗೂಢಚಾರಿಕೆ ಮಾಡು
- snoop in Nepali
- स्नुप गर्न, स्नूप गर्न
- snoop in Arabic
- تَجَسَّسَ tajassasa
Examples of snoop in a sentence
- We need to snoop out a link between the suspect and the victim.
- I did some snooping and found her Reddit.
- She's been snooping around asking questions.
Forms of snoop
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | snoops |
| present participle | snooping |
| past participle | snooped |
| past | snooped |
| Noun | |
| plural | snoops |
Origin of snoop
From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”) or maybe Old Norse snópa (“to idle about dismally”), or (“to use a blood found”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Words formed from snoop
Phrases with snoop
Words that rhyme with snoop
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bloop
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about snoop
- What does snoop mean?
- Snoop means to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
- What is snoop in Tamil?
- Snoop in Tamil is அறியாவண்ணம் பதுங்கி செல், தனக்கு தொடர்பில்லா செய்திகளில் தலையி, அழையா வீட்டில் நுழை. See Snoop meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is snoop?
- Snoop can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce snoop?
- Snoop is pronounced /snuːp/.
- What is the past tense of snoop?
- The past tense of snoop is snooped.
Words near snoop in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snoop (page history and authors); snoop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snoop (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snoop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snoop (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); snoop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snoop (Nepali, 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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