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snuck

/snʌk/

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Ireland/snʊk/

snuck is the simple past and past participle of sneak.

Meaning of sneak

Verb

sneak (third-person singular simple present sneaks, present participle sneaking, simple past and past participle sneaked or snuck)

  1. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
    • He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.
    Synonyms:
    skulk, steal, slink
  2. (transitive) To take (something) in a surreptitious manner, so as to avoid being noticed.
    • Near-synonyms: pilfer, filch
    Synonyms:
    pilfer, filch
  3. (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
    • She asked me to sneak her a phone next month.
  4. (dated, transitive) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
    • [Slander] sneaks its head.1701, William Wake, A rationale upon some texts of Scripture
  5. (informal, intransitive, with-on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
    • If you sneak on me I'll bash you!
    Synonyms:
    grass, snitch, tell tales

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Synonyms of snuck

Origin of snuck

The irregular form snuck originated by analogy with struck for the past of strike, stuck for the past of stick, etc. Snuck was originally limited to a few dialects, but is now very widespread (especially in American English) and is recognized by most dictionaries. The word is now one of the best examples of irregularization of a regular verb, along with dove.

Phrases with snuck

Words that rhyme with snuck

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Questions about snuck

What is snuck the simple past and past participle of?
Snuck is the simple past and past participle of sneak.
How do you pronounce snuck?
Snuck is pronounced /snʌk/.

Words near snuck in the dictionary

  1. snubnosed
  2. snubnosed revolver
  3. snubnosed revolvers
  4. snubproof
  5. snubs
  6. snuck
  7. snuck around
  8. snuck in
  9. snuck out
  10. snuck past
  11. snuck up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snuck (page history and authors); sneak (page history and authors). 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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