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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Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 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
Anymore, which will allow subscribers to snoop at a deep level on just about anyone in the world; the war against the data eaters, the name suggests, is long since lost, and is none of your business, anyway.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 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 21 Apr. 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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