snoop

Related to snoop: snoop around

snoop about (something or some place)

To investigate, search through, or inquire impertinently into something or some place. Please tell me that the cops won't find any incriminating evidence if they start snooping about your office. Sarah's been snooping about, lately—I think she's starting to suspect me.
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snoop around

To investigate, search through, or inquire impertinently into something or some place. Please tell me that the cops won't find any incriminating evidence if they start snooping around your office. Sarah's been snooping around, lately—I think she's starting to suspect me. I started snooping around the senator's campaign records and discovered a vast conspiracy of fraud and embezzlement.
See also: around, snoop

snoop into (something)

To investigate, pry, or inquire impertinently into something. Please tell me that the cops won't find any incriminating evidence if they start snooping into our financial practices! I started snooping into the senator's campaign records and discovered a vast conspiracy of fraud and embezzlement.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

snoop around (something)

to look around in a place, trying to find out something secret or about someone else's affairs. Why are you snooping around my house? I am not snooping around.
See also: around, snoop

snoop into something

to pry into something or someone else's affairs. I wish you would stop snooping into my business! Whose affairs are they snooping into now?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

snoop

1. in. to prowl around looking for something. What are you snooping around here for?
2. n. someone who prowls around looking for something. Fred is just a snoop. He went through my desk!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sniff about (something or some place)
  • sniff around
  • snoop about (something or some place)
  • snoop around
  • snoop into
  • snoop into (something)
  • poke about
  • poke around
  • sniff
  • have a sniff around
References in periodicals archive
It is not known if Snoop knew about Gascoigne's struggles with alcohol and his mental health, or indeed who the formerNewcastleman is, prior to his post on Instagram.
Online website MENSXP reported that an investigation is still underway, but after it is complete, anyone interested in adopting Snoop can send an application through the RSPCA's 'Find a Pet database.'
"We started Merry Jane with an all-female design team, for two reasons," says Ted Chung, co-founder of Merry Jane and Snoop Dogg's longtime manager.
Missy and Snoop Dogg are known to chirp phrases such as "giz a tickle", "give us a big fat kiss" and "hello fat girl".
Last month, Snoop released his own "Orientalist" inspired music video, which "showcased a futuristic Los Angeles, California, that has obviously reinterpreted a great deal from ancient Egyptian styles," reported stepFEED.
I would have thought that if anything was time-wasting, it is a football fan stooping to snoop on a young girl's Internet activity only to find it packed with fashion tips and trends.
Snoop is a die-hard Redditor, having amassed 10,700 link karma and nearly 600,000 comment karma.
Snoop was about an hour late, which is relatively on time for a rapper.
In the end, Snoop kept the fans waiting longer than he actually played for, with his set running for not much longer than an hour, but it says a lot about the guy that no one seemed to care.
Gatecrasher boss Simon Raine hailed the Snoop show as a major coup.
The 70-year-old gardener, from Langstone, Newport, hit national headlines when he drew the attention of superstar Snoop Lion, then known as Snoop Dogg, ahead of his show in Cardiff.
LATEST news on rapper Snoop Dogg's confused life as a football supporter.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr, better known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Snoop Dogg, or most recently, Snoop Lion, is all set to make the Capital " drop it like it's hot" in his upcoming concert at the Leisure Valley, HUDA Grounds, Sector 29, Gurgaon, on Sunday.
The next edition of Atelier/Festival is confirmed for New Year's Eve - 31st December 2012 at Meydan Racecourse - with Snoop Dogg set to headline the event.
Summary: Rapper Snoop Dogg has revealed playing video games keeps him feeling young.