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snuck up

snuck up is the simple past and past participle of sneak up.

Meaning of sneak up

Verb

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

  1. To approach a person or animal without being seen or heard
    • If you sneak up from behind like that, you'll give me a heart attack!
  2. To deliver a sudden effect, often unexpectedly and without warning.
    • Watch out for that brown liquor. It sneaks up on you quickly.

Questions about snuck up

What is snuck up the simple past and past participle of?
Snuck up is the simple past and past participle of sneak up.

Words near snuck up in the dictionary

  1. snuck
  2. snuck around
  3. snuck in
  4. snuck out
  5. snuck past
  6. snuck up
  7. snucken
  8. snudge
  9. snudged
  10. snudges
  11. snudgeth

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