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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Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2025
Jason’s friend and a fellow associate of Brian’s, Cal feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms with a few beers and some private browser tabs open.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
Walter hacks into the internet and Lottie’s phone while Shauna mopes around, and Misty snoops in Lottie’s pockets and drawers for evidence.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Others described judges attempting to snoop or surveil them.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 9 June 2025
Jason’s friend and a fellow associate of Brian’s, Cal feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms with a few beers and some private browser tabs open.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
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
Walter hacks into the internet and Lottie’s phone while Shauna mopes around, and Misty snoops in Lottie’s pockets and drawers for evidence.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 2 Jul. 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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