English

Alternative forms

• peak, peke (obsolete)

Verb

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.

Translations

Related terms

• peekable
• sneak peek

Etymology 2

Verb

peek

1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

• keep
• kepe
• Peke