sneak

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sneaks

1.
One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.
2.
The act of sneaking
3.
A cheat; a con artist.
I can't believe I gave that sneak $50 for a ticket when they were selling for $20 at the front gate.
Đồng nghĩa: con artist, trickster, bristler, bunco artist, bunco-steerer, chiseler, con artist, confidence artist, confidence trickster, conman, flimflammer, grifter, lugger, magsman, mountebank, saltimbanco, sharpster, sharker, shark-gull, slicker, smooth operator, spiv, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher, crammer, deceiver, deceptor, fabricator, fabulist, falser, gabber, grifter, guiler, liar, losenger, mocker, pseudologist, rook, Scandaroon, shammer, Spanish athlete, swindler, swike, treacher, trickster, trucker, wernard
4.
An informer; a tell-tale.
Đồng nghĩa: abaddon, accuser, beefer, bewrayer, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongue, canary, CI, finger, fink, fizgig, gossip, grass, informant, informer, jurat, leak, mole, narc, nark, nonce, outer, peacher, quisling, rat, ratfink, rooster, sneak, snitch, snout, squealer, state's evidence, stooge, stool pigeon, stoolie, supergrass, sycophant, tattler, tattletale, telltale tit, telltale, tout, whistleblower
5.
(obsolete)(obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
6.
(US)A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
7.
(American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
8.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)(movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sneaks

V_ing/Gerund

sneaking

V_ed/pp

sneakedsnuck

1.
(intransitive)To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.
Đồng nghĩa: skulk, steal, slink
2.
(transitive)To take something stealthily without permission.
I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.
Đồng nghĩa: steal
3.
(ditransitive)To stealthily bring someone something.
She asked me to sneak her a phone next month.
4.
(dated, transitive)To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
5.
(informal, intransitive, with on)To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
If you sneak on me I'll bash you!
Đồng nghĩa: grass, snitch, tell tales

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable)In advance; before release to the general public.
The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.
2.
(not comparable)In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
I was able to get a sneak peek at the guest list.

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Nguồn gốc từ

Possibly from Middle English sniken (to creep, crawl), from Old English snīcan (to creep, crawl), from *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (to creep, crawl), of origin; compare formally unrelated snake, snoop, snook, snoke and snoot. Cognate with snige, snika, sníkja. Possibly related to snitch.