Meanings
nounsnooper (plural snoopers)
plural snoopers
- A person who snoops.
Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 871 more example
Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it.
2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Catalan dotor
- dotorone who snoops
French fouineur
- fouineurone who snoops
Italian ficcanaso
- ficcanasoone who snoops
Polish szpicel
- szpicelone who snoops
Spanish fisgón
- fisgónone who snoops
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with snooper
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APA
snooper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snooper
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“snooper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snooper. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snooper,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snooper.
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