snooped; snooping; snoops
: to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
snooper
noun
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Examples of snoop in a Sentence
Verb
She locks up her diary to keep her brother from snooping.
Government agencies have been snooping on them for years.
She doesn't want reporters snooping into her personal life.
Noun
No, I didn't read your e-mail. I'm no snoop.
We had a snoop around their apartment.
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
Caught snooping What a weirdo pic.twitter.com/jjobqAomhp — v (@vgveegeevg) October 7, 2024
SnoopyWeekly’s silence on the election was deafening.
—Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
—Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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Verb
That, combined with a quick Congressional quashing of pending FCC privacy regulations, also left the commission powerless to stop broadband providers from snooping on their customers.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
Caught snooping What a weirdo pic.twitter.com/jjobqAomhp — v (@vgveegeevg) October 7, 2024
SnoopyWeekly’s silence on the election was deafening.
—Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
—Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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snoop
1 of 2 verb
: to look or search especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
snooper
noun
snoop
2 of 2 noun
: one that snoops
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