Snoop

Definition: Snoop

Snoop

Noun

1. A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others.

Verb

1. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snoop" was first used: 1832. (references)

Synonyms: Snoop

Dre and Snoop chronic'ed out in the 'llac (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

O' what me and my homey Snoop Dogg came to do (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre are at the do' (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Big snoop dogg mr tan tyrese baby boy (Just A Baby Boy; performing artist: Tyrese)

40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this? Snoop in your medicine cabinet. (references; author: unknown)

The Snoop Sisters (1973)

Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble Sneak (1941)

Downfall of Uriah Snoop (1913)

Snoop Dogg (What's My Name Pt. 2) (performing artist: Snoop Dogg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cyber Snoop Nation: The Adventures of Littanie Webster, Sixteen-Year-Old Genius Private Eye on Internet Radio (reference)

• How to Snoop in Your Sister's Diary (Treetop Tales) (reference)

• Professional Snoop (reference)

• Snoop Dog 2003 calendar (reference)

• Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (An Avon Camelot Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Family Snoop (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Snoop Doggy Dogg: Authorized Biography of a Dogg's Life (reference)

• Snoop Dogg - Lay Low (DVD Single) (reference)

• Make it or Break it Videos: Eminem Featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg (reference)

• Snoop Dogg: Diary of a Pimp (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best [Unreleased] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Cyber Snoop 3.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Black Aleck Dickinson and his dog Snoop. Iron County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "snoop": snoop around ♦ snoop into. Additional references.

Albanian

zhbirues (penetrating, penetrative, searching, snooper), zhbiroj (see into), fut hundët (nuzzle, pry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متطفل (meddlesome, obtrusive, parasite, sponger), ‏نبش (dig into, dig out, dig up, disinterment, exhume, grub, make a hole in, rake, resurrect, revelation, scratch up, snooping, unearthing), ‏تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snooping), ‏تجسس (eavesdrop, espionage, rat, sing, snooping, spy, spying), ‏طفيلي (loamy, parasitical, scrounger), ‏ألقى نظرة خاطفة (flash a glance, glimpse, peek), ‏بوليس سري (dick, emissary, shadow, sleuth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слухтя, навирам си носа. (various references)

Czech

šmírovat, šmírování. (various references)

Farsi 

مخفیانه تحقیقات بعمل اوردن , نگاه تجسس امیزکردن , جستجوکننده (Searcher, Tracer), جاسوس (Informer, Spy, Undercover), بدنبال متخلفین قانون گشتن , بدنبال غذاپوءیدن . (various references)

French

jeter un regard discret, fureter, fourrer son nez dans les affaires des autres, fouineur, fouiner, fouiller, espionner, espion, détective. (various references)

German

schnüffeln (nose about, nose around, poke about, poke around, pry, sleuthing, sniff, sniffle, snoop around, snuffle, to sleuthing, to sniffle, to snoop, to snuffle), herumspionieren (nose about, nose around, snoop around, to snoop). (various references)

Greek 

κατασκοπεύω (snoop around, spy, spy on), σπιούνοσ (informer, nark, sneak), ενεδρεύω (ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, skulk, waylay). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתחוב חוטמו, לרחרח (nose, sniff), חטטן (digger, faultfinder, nosey). (various references)

Hungarian

szimatolás (sniff), szaglászás (snooping), spicliskedés. (various references)

Indonesian

pengintai (looker, scout, watcher). (various references)

Italian

curiosare (browse, look curiously, poke about, poke around, wander). (various references)

Manx

keekeyder (peeper, voyeur), keekey (peep, peeping, snooping), keekal (peep, peeping, snooping). (various references)

Pig Latin

oopsnay.(various references)

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), mexericar (gab, gossip, intrigue, scandalize, tattle, tittle-tattle), meter o nariz em tudo, furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, nab, prey, prig, purloin, rob, scrounge, shoplift, steal, swipe, thieve), bisbilhotar (gossip, kike, pry, tattle). (various references)

Russian 

сыщик (bloodhound, detective, ferret, nark, plain-clothes man, plainclothesman, plant, sleuth, trap), стащить (filch, pull off, scrounge, snitch), вынюхивать, подглядывать (keek, kike, peep, snooped). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

njuškati (sniff), njuškalo (busybody, nosey, sniffer, snooper), cunjati, cunjalo. (various references)

Spanish

practicar un registro furtivo, fisgonear (nose about, nose around), fisgar (jeer, mock, pry), fisgón (nosey, nosey parker, nosy, prier, prying, snooper, snooping), curiosear (nose, nose about, nose around, poke about, poke around, pry, rubberneck, sniff, sniffle, snuffle). (various references)

Swedish

snoka (ferret, ferret about, pry, search, spy), snatta (filch, lift, pick and steal, pilfer, purloin), knycka (bone, collar, crib, filch, hustle, jerk, nip, nobble, snaffle, sneak, snitch, walk off with). (various references)

Thai

คนสอดแนม (snooper). (various references)

Turkish

meraklı taze (nosey parker, quidnunc), meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, Snoopy, splenetic), merakla gözetlemek, her işe burnunu sokan kimse, hafiye (detective, ferret, sleuth, split, spy), gizlice aramak, burnunu sokmak (butt in, horn in, horn in on, interfere in, intermeddle, meddle, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, pry, pry into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, snoop into, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in). (various references)

Ukrainian

совати носа в чужі справи, шпик, вистежувати (dog, nose, nose after, sleuth, spoor, spy, spy out, trail), людина, що соває носа в чужі справи (snooper), привласнювати (appropriate, arrogate, cabbage, embezzle, grab, peculate, poach, pocket, pouch, take, trouser). (various references)

snoepen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snoop": snooped, snooper, snoopers, snoopier, snoopiest, snoopily, snooping, snoops, snoopy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snoop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anop, anoup, Esnouf, Senepol, skopo, snco, sno, snoa, snoob, snool, snoopa, snoope, snoopi, snoox, snop, snoq, snoun, snov, snoz, snurp, Vnup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: poons, spoon.

-1 letter: oops, pons, poon, soon.

-2 letters: noo, nos, ons, ops, son, sop.

-3 letters: no, on, op, os, so.

+1 letter: phonos, poison, pornos, snoops, snoopy, spoons, spoony.

+2 letters: coupons, gonophs, nonpros, nonstop, operons, opsonic, opsonin, options, phonons, photons, plosion, pocosin, poisons, pompons, ponchos, pontons, potions, protons, snooped, snooper, soprano, soupcon, sponson, sponsor, spooned, spooney, youpons.

+3 letters: anoopsia, duopsony, empoison, endopods, harpoons, hencoops, iodopsin, isopodan, lampoons, metopons, opinions, opposing, opsonify, opsonins, opsonize, pandoors, patroons, planosol, platoons, plosions, pocosins, pogonias, pogonips, poisoned, poisoner, polarons, polygons, pompanos, pontoons, poorness, popcorns, portions, position, positron, postpone, potstone, prognose, prolongs, pronouns, propones, puccoons, scooping, scorpion, shopworn, snoopers, snoopier, snoopily, snooping, snowdrop, snowplow, sopranos, sorption, soupcons, spittoon, sponsion, sponsons, sponsors, spontoon, spoofing, spooking, spooling, spooneys, spoonful, spoonier, spoonies, spoonily, spooning, spooring, stooping, sunproof, swooping, teaspoon, tompions, topknots, toponyms, topstone, typhoons, vanpools, woopsing.