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Webster 1913 Edition


Peek

Peek

(pēk)
,
Verb.
I.
[OE.
piken
: cf. F.
piquer
to pierce, prick, E.
pique
. Cf.
Peak
.]
To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Peek

PEEK

, in our popular dialect, is the same as peep, to look through a crevice.

Definition 2024


peek

peek

See also: PEEK and peek’

English

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peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

  1. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
  2. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
    • 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories (ISBN 1573447978):
      A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
    • 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You (ISBN 1459223284):
      Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
  3. (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
    • 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
      We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
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Etymology 2

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peek

  1. Misspelling of pique.

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