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UK
/snˈuːpɐ/
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NOUN
- a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
How To Use snooper In A Sentence
- During World War II, he developed a camera a hundred times more powerful than the iconoscope, which was the first night-vision camera, called the sniperscope or snooperscope, and he worked on radio-controlled missiles.
- The trouble with the snooperscopes was that they needed their own light source - a searchlight that illuminated targets with an infra-red beam.
- Lederer says solemnly "As a word-bethumped language guy, I adhere firmly to the blooper snooper's code, taking only what I find and contriving nothing," but I believe him exactly as much as I believe a teller of tall tales who swears that this really happened. Languagehat.com: BLOOPERS.
- Second of all, deregulate -- in other words, get government snoopers out of the picture, which only lets the swindlers hide their losses for a while, until the truth becomes too plain and we the taxpayers foot the bill. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
- Events are experienced at a far remove, mediated by communications technologies in which the assumed perspective is that of the snooperscope, the prying electronic eye.
- But as he turned to go, she heard him mutter under his breath, `Third snooper in as many weeks. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- Snoopers are checking residents' bins to make sure they do not put nonrecyclable material in with paper and tin cans. The Sun
- We don't want neighbours, snoopers, uninvited visitors or unsought conversation. Times, Sunday Times
- After all, it isn't every editor who can go to such things with snooperscopes and the like, so we had to rely on our five senses.
- All the time the cameras are grinding and the snooperscope is scanning every inch of the room.