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peek¹

  • /piːk/

Sounds like peak, peke, pique · Rhymes with -iːk

Where it comes from

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 blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).

verb peeks · peeking · 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. A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
  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. We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

noun peeks

  1. informal A quick glance or look.

peek²

  • /piːk/

Sounds like peak, peke, pique · Rhymes with -iːk

noun

  1. informal, misspelling Misspelling of pique.pique

PEEK³

noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of polyetheretherketone.polyetheretherketone

Peek⁴

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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