verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪
There was most definitely somebody snooping around .
▪
In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government.
▪
First Pollitt's lot, then Platt's, snooping around .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Bob caught her snooping through the papers on his desk.
▪
Technology is making it easier to snoop on just about anybody.
▪
What are you doing snooping around in my room?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Every one of these nodes presents the opportunity for snooping.
▪
I have ideas and you snoop .
▪
In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government.
▪
Internet e-mail is obviously far less secure than the postal system, where envelopes protect correspondence from casual snooping.
▪
Lil in any case has a breakfast meeting with those Fox Ghosts I saw snooping around Mephistco on my last trip back.
▪
Richard Nixon feared the moral consequences even as he ordered the snooping campaign that led to Watergate.
▪
That suited Fenn fine: he preferred to snoop alone.
▪
There was most definitely somebody snooping around.