Peek
[piːk] or [pik]
Definition
(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Editor: Robert
Definition
v.i. to peep.—n. Peek′aboo a children's game from the cry made when hiding one's eyes.
Inputed by Camille
Examples
- In fact, if we should peek in the back of the camera, and to do so would ruin the exposure, we could not even see it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Introduced to Snowgrass--great poet, friend of Peek Weeks--by Mrs. Hunt, which wrote other sweet poem--what is that name? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Peek--christian name; Weeks-- surname; good, ver good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We were sidetracked for a long time this side of Mestre and children came and peeked in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Hamilton