Meaning

8 senses
  1. 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.

    someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

  2. The act of sneaking

  3. A cheat; a con artist.

    I can't believe I gave that sneak $50 for a ticket when they were selling for $20 at the front gate.

    Duckmäuser, Duckmäuserin, Kriecher

  4. An informer; a tell-tale.

    someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

  5. (US)A sneaker; a tennis shoe.

  6. A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.

  7. (derogatory, slang)An unworthy or deceptive entry in a list of high-ranking people or things.

  8. (obsolete)A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter

Examples

381 sentences
  1. Tom snuck out of the room.

    Том вислизнув з кімнати.

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  2. Tom sneaked up behind Mary.

    Том підкрався до Мері сзаду.

    ruТом незаметно подкрался к Мэри сзади.

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  3. Tom snuck up behind Mary.

    Том підкрався до Мері сзаду.

    ruТом незаметно подкрался к Мэри сзади.

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  4. Tom snuck out at night.

    Том крадькома утік вночі.

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  5. Tom sneaked out the back door.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
a cheat; con artist; trickster:

Origin

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to cree

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), of sound-symbolic origin; compare formally unrelated snake, snoop, snook, snoke, and snoot. Cognate with Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.

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Forms

plural: sneaks
Singularsneak
Pluralsneaks

regular

Synonyms

99 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • sneak into the
  • sneak out of
  • sneaked up behind
  • tried to sneak
  • sneak up on
  • to sneak out
  • to sneak into

See also

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