Definition of "snoop" [snoop]

• To pry into the private affairs of others, especially by prowling about. (verb-intransitive)
• One who snoops. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And the word snoop should probably raise a red flag."
• "March 3, 2008 at 10: 58 am why is your name snoop dogg?"
• "The card can scan for both a and b networks without losing the current configuration, or you can use what it nicely calls a snoop mode which performs more extensive frequency checking."