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- Dictionarysnoop/snuːp/
verb
- 1. investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs: "your sister might find the ring if she goes snooping about" Similar
noun
- 1. a furtive investigation: "I could go back to her cottage and have another snoop" Similar
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The meaning of SNOOP is to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner. How to use snoop in a sentence.
to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something: People were sent out to snoop on rival businesses. She's the sort of person you can imagine snooping about your room when you're not there. to try to find out about other people's private lives:
If someone snoops on a person, they watch them secretly in order to find out things about their life. Governments have been known to snoop on innocent citizens. [VERB + on] Synonyms: spy, poke your nose in, nose, interfere More Synonyms of snoop. snooper countable noun.
to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something: People were sent out to snoop on rival businesses. She's the sort of person you can imagine snooping around your room when you're not there. to try to find out about other people's private lives:
You snoop when you rustle through someone's garbage looking for love letters, and if you spy on your neighbor through the curtains, you also snoop. In fact, if you spend enough time doing this, you'll be called a snoop — a sneaky busybody.
snoop - a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others. snooper. eavesdropper - a secret listener to private conversations. spy - a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people; "my spies tell me that you had a good time last night".
verb. /snuːp/ [intransitive] (informal, disapproving) Verb Forms. to find out private things about somebody, especially by looking secretly around a place. snoop (around/round something) Someone's been snooping around my apartment. snoop (on somebody) journalists snooping on politicians.
SNOOP definition: to look around a place secretly in order to find out information about someone: . Learn more.
Definitions of 'snoop' 1. If someone snoops around a place, they secretly look around it in order to find out things. [...] 2. If someone snoops on a person, they watch them secretly in order to find out things about their life. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'snoop' American English: snup British English: snuːp. More. Conjugations of 'snoop'
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun snoop. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
