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Sneak   /snik/   Listen
Sneak

verb
(past & past part. sneaked or snuk; pres. part. sneaking)
1.
To go stealthily or furtively.  Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot.
2.
Put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner.  "Sneak a cigarette"
3.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe.
4.
Pass on stealthily.  Synonym: slip.
noun
1.
A person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible.
2.
Someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions.  Synonyms: prowler, stalker.
3.
Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.  Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon.
adjective
1.
Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed.  Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious.  "A sneak attack" , "Stealthy footsteps" , "A surreptitious glance at his watch"



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"Sneak" Quotes from Famous Books



... for spying 'round on that there Britisher hoss-captain and his redskins; but 'long to'ards the last I met up with a thing 'r two wo'th knowing. 'Twas a powder and lead cargo they was a-waiting for; and they're allowing to sneak it through the mountings ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... turned sharply round to me. He did not look at Hilda—I think he did not dare; but he faced me with his head down and his long, thin neck protruded, eyeing me from under those overhanging, penthouse brows of his. "You sneak!" he cried, passionately. "You sneak! You have dogged me by false pretences. You have lied to bring this about! You have come aboard under a false name—you and ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... "Him sneak in here—have some of that stuff you call 'dope.' I sent up powder, and I come back here to see him try to put ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... Only the grating of Mr. Amherst's bits of china mars the stillness. Plantagenet, staring at his judges, defies them, without a word, to betray their retreat. The judges—although angry—stare back at him, and acknowledge their inability to play the sneak. Sir Penthony drops the curtain,—and the candle. Instantly darkness covers them. Luttrell scrapes a heavy chair along the waxed borders of the floor; there is some faint confusion, a rustle of petticoats, a few more footsteps than ought ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... said. "Why, yes, to be honest with you, he would gain a lot. But I can't—Oh, he wouldn't be such a sneak! Perhaps I had better tell you all about everything, now you have ...
— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske


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