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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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
Her most mild-mannered heroines snoop through curtains and hedges; at their most audacious, her spinsters whip out binoculars and sneak uninvited into other people’s homes.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Maggie is a snoop—and a clumsy one.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Doors are forever being left ajar; every keyhole is an invitation to snoop.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
Her most mild-mannered heroines snoop through curtains and hedges; at their most audacious, her spinsters whip out binoculars and sneak uninvited into other people’s homes.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
Just how much secret information could a snoop discover?
—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Maggie is a snoop—and a clumsy one.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 26 Nov. 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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