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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snoop
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, snooping around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bob caught her snooping through the papers on his desk.
▪ Technology is making it easier to snoop on just about anybody.
▪ What are you doing snooping around in my room?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every one of these nodes presents the opportunity for snooping.
▪ I have ideas and you snoop.
▪ In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government.
▪ Internet e-mail is obviously far less secure than the postal system, where envelopes protect correspondence from casual snooping.
▪ Lil in any case has a breakfast meeting with those Fox Ghosts I saw snooping around Mephistco on my last trip back.
▪ Richard Nixon feared the moral consequences even as he ordered the snooping campaign that led to Watergate.
▪ That suited Fenn fine: he preferred to snoop alone.
▪ There was most definitely somebody snooping around.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snoop

1832, "to go around in a prying manner," American English, probably from Dutch snoepen "to pry," also "eat in secret, eat sweets, sneak," probably related to snappen "to bite, snatch" (see snap (v.)). Specific meaning "to pry into other people's business" is attested from 1921. Related: Snooped; snooping.

snoop

1891, "act of snooping," from snoop (v.). Meaning "one who snoops" is from 1929; meaning "detective" is from 1942. snooper "one who pries or peeps" is from 1889.

Wiktionary
snoop

n. 1 The act of snooping 2 One who snoops 3 A private detective vb. 1 To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen. 2 To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.

WordNet
snoop
  1. n. a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others [syn: snooper]

  2. v. watch, observe, or inquire secretly [syn: spy, stag, sleuth]

Wikipedia
Snoop

"Snoop" is a noun and verb referring to one who pries into the business of others; a busybody; it may also refer to:

In aviation:

  • Eastern Ultralights Snoop, ultralight aircraft

In entertainment:

  • Snoop Dogg, American rapper, actor and music producer
  • Snoop (The Wire), a character in the television series The Wire
    • Felicia Pearson, also nicknamed "Snoop", the actress who plays the aforementioned character of the same name
  • Snoopy, famous character in the comic strip Peanuts

In technology:

  • snoop (software), a utility to capture and inspect network packets, included with the Solaris operating system
  • a snoop cycle in a microprocessor's cache coherency mechanism
Snoop (software)

snoop is a very flexible command line packet analyzer included as part of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system. Its source code is available via the OpenSolaris project.

For command line arguments see the snoop manpage.

Snoop (The Wire)

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson is a fictional character on the HBO series The Wire, played by the actress of the same name. She is a young female soldier in Marlo Stanfield's drug dealing organization, the earliest protégé of Chris Partlow. As one of the experienced leaders of Stanfield's crew, she commits many ruthless murders on their behalf.

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.