Definitions for sneak
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sneaknoun

   a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible

2. prowler, sneak, stalkernoun

   someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

3. fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canaryadjective

   someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

4. furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitiousverb

   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. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfootverb

   to go stealthily or furtively

   "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

6. sneakverb

   put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner

   "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette"

7. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, liftverb

   make off with belongings of others

8. slip, sneakverb

   pass on stealthily

   "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sneaknoun

   A mean, sneaking fellow.

2. sneaknoun

   An informer; a tell-tale; a grass.

3. sneakverb

   To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen;

   to sneak away from company.

4. sneakverb

   To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.

5. sneakverb

   (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to tell tales; to grass.

   If you sneak on me I'll bash you!

6. sneaknoun

   One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.

   My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.

7. sneaknoun

   A cheat; a con artist.

   Synonyms: con artist, trickster; see also Thesaurus:confidence trickster, Thesaurus:deceiver

8. sneaknoun

   An informer; a tell-tale.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

9. sneaknoun

   A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter

10. sneaknoun

    A sneaker; a tennis shoe.

    We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots.

11. Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken ("to creep, crawl"), though the OED doubts this, or from Old English snīcan ("to desire, reach for sneakily"), from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną, which is related to the root of snake.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To SNEAKverb

   Etymology: snican , Saxon; snige, Danish.

   1. To creep slily; to come or go as if afraid to be seen.

   Once the eagle, England, being in prey,
   To her unguarded nest the weazel, Scot,
   Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs. William Shakespeare.

   Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you
   Must have a word anon: lay hold on him. William Shakespeare.

   Discover’d, and defeated of your prey,
   You skulk’d behind the fence, and sneak’d away. Dryden.

   I ought not to turn my back, and to sneak off in silence, and leave the truth to lie baffled, bleeding, and slain. Isaac Watts.

   He sneak’d into the grave,
   A monarch’s half and half a harlot’s slave. Dunciad.

   Are you all ready? Here’s your musick here:
   Author, sneak off; we’ll tickle you, my dear. Moore.

   2. To behave with meanness and servility; to crouch; to truckle.

   I need salute no great man’s threshold, sneak to none of his friends to speak a good word for me to my conscience. South.

   Nothing can support minds drooping and sneaking, and inwardly reproaching them, from a sense of their own guilt, but to see others as bad. Robert South, Sermons.

   When int’rest calls off all her sneaking train,
   When all th’ oblig’d desert, and all the vain,
   She waits, or to the scaffold, or the cell,
   When the last ling’ring friend has bid farewel. Alexander Pope.

   Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave;
   Will sneaks a scriv’ner, an exceeding knave. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sneakverb

   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

2. Sneak

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

3. Sneakverb

   to hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner

4. Sneaknoun

   a mean, sneaking fellow

5. Sneaknoun

   a ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub

6. Etymology: [OE. sniken, AS. sncan to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel. snkja to hanker after.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sneak

   snēk, v.i. to creep or steal away privately or meanly: to behave meanly.—v.t. (slang) to steal.—n. a mean, servile fellow: a mean thief.—ns. Sneak′-cup (Shak.), one who balks his glass: a cowardly, insidious scoundrel; Sneak′er.—adj. Sneak′ing, mean, crouching: secret, underhand, not openly avowed.—adv. Sneak′ingly.—ns. Sneak′ingness, Sneak′iness, the quality of being sneaking: meanness; Sneaks′by (obs.), a sneak.—adj. Sneak′y, somewhat sneaking. [A.S. snícan, to creep; Dan. snige. Cf. Snake.]

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Intruder
   • Pass
   • Steal
   • Unpleasant Person

Anagrams for sneak »

1. akens

2. snake

3. Snake

4. skean

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sneak in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sneak in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sneak in a Sentence

1. Aaron Foss:

   Nothing is protecting voice and text, so all the criminals sneak in.

2. Jason Day:

   Obviously, I need to go out there and win the next two, and whatever happens, happens. If I sneak through, I sneak through. If not, then it's my own fault for losing. It's a different format, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes the next couple of days.

3. Josef Woodman:

   South Africa pioneered an approach of allowing patrons from Beverley Hills or London to sneak off for 'surgery and safari,' they could have a nose job and stay for 30 days.

4. Tiger Woods:

   I wanted to have something positive going into the Open and kind of sneak up there with a nice little top 10 possibly, i was never going to win the tournament with where I was at. I wanted to get to double digits (under par) today and I did. I just didn't stay there.

5. Robert Yawger:

   It can sneak up on you and bite you on the butt if you don't know what you're doing.

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