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snuck

vb. (context chiefly North America English) (en-pastsneak)

WordNet
sneak
  1. n. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions [syn: prowler, stalker]

  2. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneaker, canary]

  3. [also: snuck]

sneak
  1. adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows" [syn: furtive, lurking, skulking, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious]

  2. [also: snuck]

sneak
  1. v. to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: mouse, creep, steal, pussyfoot]

  2. put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette"

  3. make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, filch, nobble, lift]

  4. pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" [syn: slip]

  5. [also: snuck]

snuck

See sneak

Usage examples of "snuck".

When Jenny went back to her bedroom, Garp snuck Cushie into the tunnel that led to the main infirmary.

Myr Cory would mind if I snuck up and caught a nice take of her in this glorious light, surrounded with all her high-tech doodads and backed by the views up there?

Now, Tryl stood in the shadows, watching as Karri snuck up to the bower where Yai lay, not dead, but not safe either.

She roughly withdrew the plug rachet, snuck another admiring glance and accidentally knocked off the socket head, which clattered through the engine and settled on a steel ledge at the bottom of the compartment.

I snuck back to the library, where I put out the lamp Rince had lit and tucked Aine, Taric and Crann into a corner out of sight of the doorway.

I dropped in to see Forrest, and Rosario and a friend of hers snuck aboard my plane and started running dry sims in the cockpit.

Thinking of the handsome guard she had snuck past on her way out, Citrine thought she knew why Tipi had wanted an excuse to be in that part of the tower.

There were times when the old tummler from Deathship Borscht Belt snuck a zinger through the fuzzy golden haze.

Legs, snuck him into some upstanding hotel where no durn greasy redskins was allowed.

I called Mark Lander to see if he could send anyone our way before he left for France but his two-year-old was screaming like a banshee because she snuck a gob of wasabi out of his take-out sushi tray.

The young Amphora scientist snuck a glance at her, torn between his fear of Jockey and his interest in her symptoms.

He snuck a peek at the car, and Penner, in a sympathetic reaction, had a peek along with him.

With a stealth acquired from all the times she had snuck out as a teenager to meet Repp, she searched out her clothes in the dark, stuffed her socks and underclothes in her boots, dragged on her jeans, and slipped into her blouse, hastily buttoning it.

At the thought that he had witnessed that kissGrace snuck a quick look over the porch rail, trying to gauge exactly how much he could see, and decided that, as the kiss had taken place right in the pool of lamplight, he could see plenty-she felt a squirmy kind of embarrassment.

So they found out all these exciting things about me, like: I drove an old pickup truck with cages in the back for my bird dogs, or I wore a Wal-Mart ball cap, or I got my hair cut at the barbershop just off the town squaresomebody with a telephoto lens even snuck up and took a picture of me in the barber chair, and it was in newspapers all over the country.