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Definition of 'sneak'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) sneak
to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.

2.  sneak
to act in a furtive or underhand way.

3. (v.t.) sneak
to move, put, pass, etc., in a stealthy or furtive manner:
He sneaked the gun into his pocket.

4.  sneak
to do, take, or have hurriedly or surreptitiously:
to sneak a cigarette.

5. (n.) sneak
a sneaking, underhand, or contemptible person.

6.  sneak
a stealthy or furtive departure.

7. (adj.) sneak
stealthy; surreptitious:
a sneak raid.

Etymology: (1590–1600; obscurely akin to ME sniken, OE snīcan to creep, c. ON snīkja to hanker after)

Definition of 'sneak'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sneak
a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible

2. (noun) prowler, sneak, stalker
someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

3. (adj) fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary
someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

4. (verb) furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
"a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

5. (verb) sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot
to go stealthily or furtively
"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

6. (verb) sneak
put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
"sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette"

7. (verb) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
make off with belongings of others

8. (verb) slip, sneak
pass on stealthily
"He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

Definition of 'sneak'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sneak
to move somewhere quietly so that people do not notice you
They sneaked past the doorway and up the stairs.

2. sneak
to take secretly somewhere
teenagers sneaking beer into the concert

3. sneak
sneak a look
to quickly look without permission
I'll sneak a look at his passport to find out how old he really is.

Definition of 'sneak'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) sneak
a mean, sneaking fellow

2. (noun) sneak
a ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub

3. sneak
to act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch

4. (verb) sneak
to creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company

5. (verb) sneak
to hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner

Translation of 'sneak'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go quietly and secretly, especially for a dishonest purpose He must have sneaked into my room when no-one was looking and stolen the money.
Afrikaans: sluip	Arabic: إنْسَلَّ، تَسَلَّلَ	Bulgarian: промъквам (се)
Brazilian: esgueirar-se	Czech: (v)plížit se	German: sich schleichen
Danish: snige	Greek: κινούμαι στα κλεφτά, γλισ	Spanish: moverse sigilosamente
Estonian: hiilima	Farsi: دزدكي رفت و آمد كردن	Finnish: hiipiä
French: se faufiler furtivement	Hebrew: לְהִתגַנֵב	Hindi: आंख बचाकर आना-जाना
Croatian: šuljati se	Hungarian: settenkedik	Indonesian: menyelinap
Icelandic: læðast	Italian: strisciare, andare furtiv	Japanese: こそこそする
Korean: 남몰래 들어오다(나가다)	Lithuanian: įsėlinti	Latvian: []lavīties
Malay: menyelinap	Dutch: sluipen	Norwegian: snike, liste seg, luske
Polish: dostawać się chyłkiem, za	Persian: دزدكي رفت و آمد كردن	Pashto: ځان اېستل، ځان تېرول، غلچ
Portuguese: esgueirar-se	Romanian: a se furişa	Russian: прокрадываться
Slovak: vkradnúť sa	Slovenian: vtihotapiti se	Serbian: ušunjati se
Swedish: smyga	Thai: ทำลับ ๆ ล่อ ๆ	Turkish: sinsice sokulmak
Taiwanese: 潛行	Ukrainian: підкрадатися	Urdu: خفیہ طریقے سے، بری نیت سے
Vietnamese: trốn, lén	Chinese: 潜行
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