spook

IPA: spˈuk

noun

  • (informal) A ghost or phantom.
  • A hobgoblin.
  • (informal) A scare or fright.
  • (espionage, slang) An undercover agent or spy.
  • (slang, dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
  • (philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
  • (US, slang, medicine) A psychiatrist.
  • (blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.

verb

  • (transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
  • (intransitive) To become frightened (by something startling).
  • (transitive) To haunt.
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Examples of "spook" in Sentences

  • The super spook is my favorite top water muskie bait for the spring.
  • What if you pee of your stand and a monster buck walks by and happens to spook from the smell.
  • I love the teeny torpedo for my home river fishing smallies, and the spook is a close second for Smallmouth also.
  • When the somewhat incompetent spook is told the real story they have tot ry and work together without getting blown up.
  • Hence on our troop sweaters we had a picture of a ghost with a SA80 in the stile of Ghost Busters, with the name spook troop.
  • "Fish in less than 10 feet tend to spook from the straight-overhead hull commotion, and fish much deeper than 25 feet get difficult to read -- especially if it's windy."

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