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A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
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snoop
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB around ▪ There was most definitely somebody snooping around . ▪ In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government. ▪ First Pollitt's lot, then Platt's, ...
Usage examples of snoop.
Egged on by Aiken, she had tested her ability by snooping into Stein, intrigued by the apparent helplessness of the sleeping giant.
Black Jack, so we went out into the street and started hunting old Bunger, and, after about a hour of snooping into low-class dives, we got wind of him.
Even though it had been his idea for Amy to snoop around the Mexicans, it still grated to see her get so chummy with the Spaniard.
When Merissa had settled down for the night, Cagan had done a little snooping on his own.
The Peed units were hardened against snooping, sniffing, pulsing, sideband and brute-force attacks.
Grady suggested, beginning to understand why Archie Peevers thought he needed a live-in bodyguard and general snoop.
Commodore Peldon when she came aboard with the announced intention of snooping into Tinhead for more details.
Prime World was also the capital of all spydom, including the fortunes that were spent on industrial snooping.
He regarded it as a low, snooping activity, a sneaking, spying, keyhole-peering kind of dirty business, a violation of the principle of mutual trust upon which he conducted both his personal affairs and his foreign policy.
Once upon a time, his network intelligence cobbers had done a study on automated snooping.
And another, an older black man, a Detective Breger, I think it was, who spent the whole time pacing the room, snooping into every corner.
The shoppers must have been puzzled by the thoughtful-looking mongrel who paced up and down that street, peering up at passing faces, snooping into shop doorways.
She had even been there once, when Multiplane had been negotiating to buy out a competitor, had stayed in the cool and perfect rooms, screened from electronic snooping, live spies, and the threat of raiders real or virtual, and had hated every minute of it.
Now tell me why you ripped off my car and put on that show at the hot dog stand and rented a post-office box under Playa del Sol and were snooping around my house today.
With the class trade we have plenty of shysters come snooping round for easy money off the shovers and taximen.