snooped; snooping; snoops
: to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
snooper
noun
Synonyms
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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Andrew Couts, WIRED, 13 July 2024
The only thing Intel stands to gain from this split is the chance that an independent foundry business could bring in new customers that compete with Intel products—and that don’t trust Intel’s design side not to snoop on their own chip designs.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
—Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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Verb
Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach For the third time since 2010, spyware vendor mSpy has suffered a substantial data breach, this time exposing millions of customers and prospective users around the globe, many of whom appear to have used the software to snoop on others.
—Andrew Couts, WIRED, 13 July 2024
The only thing Intel stands to gain from this split is the chance that an independent foundry business could bring in new customers that compete with Intel products—and that don’t trust Intel’s design side not to snoop on their own chip designs.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
Noun
And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
—Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.
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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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