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
Verb
Leaving your computer unlocked invites anyone to come along and snoop. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022 Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop on private details of user accounts at an alarming rate. Amanda Seitz, ajc, 28 July 2022 With the right regulations, users can sometimes have a vague reassurance that advertisers or the government can’t snoop as easily on their personal information. David Ingram, NBC News, 18 May 2022 Someone who snoops once is likely going to snoop again. Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022 The study reveals that, perhaps unsurprisingly, the vast majority of visitors to the various websites allowing people to snoop on people’s income were doing so to do precisely that. Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022 That means that whole houses are often made available for Evans to snoop around, bedrooms and bathrooms included. Richard Quest And Joe Minihane, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022 Some people like to snoop through medicine cabinets, but that only gives you insight into a person's physical well-being. David G. Allan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who spearheaded the effort to revise the proposal, disputed Republican claims that the goal is to snoop on Americans' financial transactions. Trish Turner, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2021
Noun
Here’s how to know if a hacker or snoop is already in your smartphone. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2022 The first is a snoop named Miriam Lewis, who lives on an adjacent houseboat.Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021 The snoop has now seen the entire message, spying it in all its glory and while in plaintext. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021 Palladino was a private eye — a snoop who could dig up a crucial witness or piece of evidence or follow a money trail to clear or convict a defendant at trial. Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2021 That gives a hacker or a snoop ample opportunity to get his or her hands on your data. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020 Miss Butterworth is an elderly snoop who pays intense attention to the goings-on in her neighborhood. Anna Katharine Green, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020 The system involves every phone constantly broadcasting Bluetooth codes, but limits any snoop's ability to eavesdrop on those codes to track a person's movements by switching up the numbers every 10 or 15 minutes. Andy Greenberg, Wired, 17 Apr. 2020 Today, the app’s 1.6 billion users can talk, text, and video chat without fear of snoops. Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Dutch snoepen to buy or eat on the sly; akin to Dutch snappen to snap