snooped; snooping; snoops
: to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
snooper
noun
snoop·er
-pə(r)
plural -s
: one that snoops: such as
a
: a prying meddler
b
: one employed as an inspector, investigator, detective, or spy
a wartime censor—one of the 15,000 snoopers who … opened your mail—
Mary Knight
Mary Knightan increased number of snoopers dogging him—Joseph Wechsberg
Joseph Wechsberg
c
: an airplane working alone to search out, observe, and sometimes attack targets
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 (1)
No, I didn't read your e-mail. I'm no snoop.
We had a snoop around their apartment.
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Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 21 May 2026
While authorities snooped around, the charity’s fundraising expenses declined, dropping from $384,000 in 2016 to $111,000 in 2017.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
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Verb
Bielsa admitted to ordering others to snoop on every opposition team throughout the season and paid the £200,000 fine from his own pocket.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 21 May 2026
While authorities snooped around, the charity’s fundraising expenses declined, dropping from $384,000 in 2016 to $111,000 in 2017.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
Except Leo is the opposite of a snoop.
—Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
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“Snoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snoop. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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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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