peek

verb · nounA1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

peeks

V_ing/Gerund

peeking

V_ed/pp

peeked

1.
(informal, intransitive)To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Close your eyes, and no peeking!
2.
(informal, intransitive)To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
3.
(informal, intransitive)To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
Sniper watching the site; don't peek.
4.
(informal, transitive)To take a look at; to check out.
Peek my new shoes.
5.
(dated, informal, transitive)To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

peeks

1.
(informal)A quick glance or look.
2.
(alt of, informal, misspelling)Misspelling of pique.

Từ liên quan

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (to peep), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (to peep) and keken, kiken (to keek, look, spy), equivalent to a peep keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of kepen, kipen, kypen (to keep, look, observe, watch).