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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Dutch
Origin: snoepen 'to buy or eat secretly'

snoop

 verb
     
snoop [intransitive]
to try to find out about someone's private affairs by secretly looking in their house, examining their possessions etc
snoop around/about
I caught him snooping around in my office.
snoop on
reporters snooping on celebrities
—snoop noun [singular]
—snooper noun [countable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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