transcription, транскрипция: [ spu:k ]
( spooks, spooking, spooked)
1.
A spook is a ghost. ( INFORMAL )
N-COUNT
2.
A spook is a spy. ( AM INFORMAL )
...as a US intelligence spook said yesterday.
N-COUNT
3.
If people are spooked , something has scared them or made them nervous. ( mainly AM )
But was it the wind that spooked her?...
Investors were spooked by slowing economies.
VERB : V n , V n
• spooked
He was so spooked that he, too, began to believe that he heard strange clicks and noises on their telephones.
ADJ : v-link ADJ