SPOOK


Meaning of SPOOK in English

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

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