sneak
IPA: snˈik
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- The act of sneaking
- A cheat; a con artist.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
verb
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
adjective
- In advance; before release to the general public.
- In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
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Examples of "sneak" in Sentences
- The women sneaked inside the plant.
- The two later sneak out of the bathroom.
- She sneaks off in the lake and undresses.
- He tries to sneak back in through the window.
- I had a sneaking suspicion of their imbecility.
- Tom sneaks into the kitchen to the refrigerator.
- They follow the tracks to the palace and sneak in.
- The midwife then sneaks the baby out of the castle.
- The Chameleon sneaks in and tries to swipe the proceeds.
- The notes are a disingenuous attempt to sneak the updates in.
- Here we go again – sneak it in through the back door like they did the health care debacle.
- John Parker Wilson had converted a fourth-and-1 with a quarterback sneak from the Kentucky 46 to keep the drive alive.
- "A quarterback sneak is as elementary as it gets, and to not be able to get a few inches on fourth down, that's inexcusable."
- At a news conference, Thompson said she was hiring a law firm to challenge the bankruptcy filing, which she called a "sneak attack" by council members.
- Vanity Fair magazine on Wednesday offered what it called a "sneak peek" at its 72nd list of the year's style icons, with just the best-of women and men.
- What you do is get a group of dogs that bark and corner the pig into a corner then you sneak from the back and shishkebab him in the neck with your knife, then run out of there as quick as possible.
- #1 POSTED BY Ross McG, Aug 18th, 2009 3: 50 am cracking list, cant really argue with the top choice, and good to see Patrick Bergin sneak in there as well. would maybe have to find room for a few others:
- Wells, who has been wearing a lineman's shoe to protect his injured foot, gained 13 more yards on three carries, and Pryor added another first down on a third-and-1 sneak from the 15 with under 2 minutes to play.
- All of this creates an image, a picture of a regime that would want, if not to actually acquire nuclear weapons tomorrow, to be within what we call a sneak-out or breakout capacity, where once that government makes the decision to make a bomb, it can make a bomb very, very quickly.