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Sneak   /snik/   Listen
verb
Sneak  v. t.  (past & past part. sneaked or snuk; pres. part. sneaking)  To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. (Obs.) "(Slander) sneaks its head."


Sneak  v. i.  (past & past part. sneaked; pres. part. sneaking)  
1.
To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. "You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away."
2.
To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.


noun
Sneak  n.  
1.
A mean, sneaking fellow. "A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks."
2.
(Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; called also grub. (Cant)





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"Sneak" Quotes from Famous Books



... the key to the rebel strength. While they hold West Point and Albany and Stanwix, they hold Tryon County by the throat. Let them occupy Philadelphia. Who cares? We can take it when we choose. Let them hold their dirty Boston; let the rebel Washington sneak around the Jerseys. Who cares? There'll be the finer hunting for us later. Gentlemen, as you know, the invasion of New York is at hand—has already begun. And that's no secret from the rebels, either; ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... me, I—a public man—am to deny my faith? The point is not whether I'm right or wrong, Mendip, but whether I'm to sneak out of my conviction ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "They sneak the ship in here, plan for an unscheduled hop from an uncompleted base—the strictest security we've used in ten or fifteen years—and now they cancel it. This is bound to get leaked by somebody! They'll call it off. It'll never ...
— The Last Place on Earth • James Judson Harmon
... Strong, I don't want to make any complaint. He and some of the others think I'm a—a sneak already," and now Harry could ...
— The Rover Boys in Camp - or, The Rivals of Pine Island • Edward Stratemeyer
... the parlor. There was that handsome silver in the dining-room (it was always in the doctor's strong box under the bed at night). What more likely than that now was the time selected by some sharp sneak-thief in the garrison to slink through the shadows of the night to the doctor's quarters, slip in the front way while the servants were all chattering and laughing in the kitchen in the rear, and make off with his plunder? It was an inspiration. Miller's heart fairly bounded at ...
— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King


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