peeping Tom

noun

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  1. spy
  2. peeper
  3. snoop
  4. gaper
Noun
  • This John and Jane Smith are two lonely strangers who sign up for a mysterious spy agency and get paired together, posing as a married couple.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Zoom in: Both President Biden and President-elect Trump — and many spies, diplomats and defense officials personally involved in the tumultuous events of the last year — agree that Assad was doomed by the weakening of his allies, Russia and Iran.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of spy
Noun
  • At Loewe, makeup artist Pat McGrath crafted a range of gold and silver accents swept atop a number of models’ peepers.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But what did come into clear view on occasion were delicately winged peepers.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of peeper
Noun
  • And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.
    PCMAG, 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
Definition of snoop
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Definition of gaper
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