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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



... lads, and we'll have 'em yet," cried Job Taskar. "They can't get out, for the gangway's choked beyond. They must have been hid yonder near the place of meeting since lunch-time, waiting for us, and they're hid now, waiting till we leave, so's they can sneak out. But they can't fool us any more, an' we'll ...
— Derrick Sterling - A Story of the Mines • Kirk Munroe
... "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 some ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... and cursed—he had no breath for it when under way—and fought the temptation to sneak back to San Francisco. Before the mile pack was ended he ceased cursing and took to crying. The tears were tears of exhaustion and of disgust with self. If ever a man was a wreck, he was. As the end of the pack came in sight, he strained himself in desperation, gained the camp-site, and ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... you!" said Beetle. "And now—I'll be decent, Carson—you sneak back with her kisses" (not for nothing had Beetle perused the later poets) "hot on your lips and call prefects' meetings, which aren't prefects' meetings, to uphold the honor of the Sixth." A new and heaven-cleft path opened before him that instant. "And how do we know," he shouted—"how ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... silenced, though far from convinced; but if you have made an engagement with an executioner, it is a point of honour not to sneak off and leave him in the lurch, when he has taken the trouble to sharpen his axe, and put on his red suit and ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson


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