snoop
to secretly investigate something
TRANSLATION
snoop = schnüffeln, herumspionieren --- GOOGLE INDEX snoop: approximately 80,000,000 Google hits (Note: approximately 44 million entries are related to the rapper Snoop Dogg)
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Test reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google SNOOP on emails
(Daily Mail article headline)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor — a writer working on a book about her — from SNOOPING.
(The Washington Times)
(Daily Mail article headline)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor — a writer working on a book about her — from SNOOPING.
(The Washington Times)
Did you
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snoop
verb
- to pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about
noun
- one who snoops
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Snoop is an American term from the mid-19th century that means to look into the affairs of others without them knowing. During this time, the only way to snoop was to ask questions or to watch others or listen to conversations while hiding.
As technology evolved, governments in particular capitalized on the capability to monitor people by means of equipment that could pick up and record conversations from afar or via miniature devices called "bugs" that could be secretly planted in rooms.
The internet has led to a whole new dimension in snooping as governments, businesses and individuals discover ways to tap into the enormous amounts of data that flow across global networks each day.
The word snoop is thought to stem from the Dutch "snoepen," meaning to sneak around to eat in secret, to snack on something. As a noun it refers to sweets.
For those who are curious about how Peanuts creator Charles Schultz came up with the name Snoopy, the cartoon strip’s famous dog, it apparently has nothing to do with snooping as a dog might do when hunting or searching for food.
According to several sources, Schulz was originally going to call him Sniffy until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. He changed it to Snoopy after remembering that his late mother Dena Schulz had commented that if their family were ever to acquire a third dog, it should be called Snoopy, an alteration of the Norwegian term of endearment "Snuppa."
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SYNONYMS
listen in, monitor, bug, spy, wire, eavesdrop, overhear, tap
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"These days, despite security, you don't know who might be snooping in your computer."
verb
- to pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about
noun
- one who snoops
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Snoop is an American term from the mid-19th century that means to look into the affairs of others without them knowing. During this time, the only way to snoop was to ask questions or to watch others or listen to conversations while hiding.
As technology evolved, governments in particular capitalized on the capability to monitor people by means of equipment that could pick up and record conversations from afar or via miniature devices called "bugs" that could be secretly planted in rooms.
The internet has led to a whole new dimension in snooping as governments, businesses and individuals discover ways to tap into the enormous amounts of data that flow across global networks each day.
The word snoop is thought to stem from the Dutch "snoepen," meaning to sneak around to eat in secret, to snack on something. As a noun it refers to sweets.
For those who are curious about how Peanuts creator Charles Schultz came up with the name Snoopy, the cartoon strip’s famous dog, it apparently has nothing to do with snooping as a dog might do when hunting or searching for food.
According to several sources, Schulz was originally going to call him Sniffy until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. He changed it to Snoopy after remembering that his late mother Dena Schulz had commented that if their family were ever to acquire a third dog, it should be called Snoopy, an alteration of the Norwegian term of endearment "Snuppa."
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SYNONYMS
listen in, monitor, bug, spy, wire, eavesdrop, overhear, tap
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"These days, despite security, you don't know who might be snooping in your computer."
