snooped; snooping; snoops
: to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
snooper
noun
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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Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.
—Adam Stone, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Kim Key, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
Illustration by Patricia Bolaños New York, as the best gossips know, is a snoop’s paradise—a nirvana for nosiness, an intermeddler’s Eden.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
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Verb
In the film, Shy is played by Jay Lycurgo, an alternately sensitive and intimidating young actor in his breakout role, and the bag doesn’t appear until midway through, when the film crew go snooping without permission in the students’ room.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
But Barclay said the intention here isn’t to go snooping.
—Adam Stone, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
Proxies lost their privacy tool status when VPNs became easier, more secure ways to hide internet traffic from advertisers and snoops.
—Kim Key, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
Illustration by Patricia Bolaños New York, as the best gossips know, is a snoop’s paradise—a nirvana for nosiness, an intermeddler’s Eden.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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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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