I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And these foreign spooks, these non-existents on the pay-rolls of any Western army, were part of that scheme.
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Anyone going to that kind of trouble, he said, has likely crossed the line from enthusiast to spook .
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As worrisome to the Agency as loose-lipped spooks were those few outsiders who dared to write about it.
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Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House.
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Hsu admits that it is somewhat ironic that technology designed to help democratise the internet is also allowing the spooks to spy.
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Paltry charges, it would seem, for so celebrated a spook .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Something must have spooked the horses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brown has taken great care not to spook the City.
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If the cap had been spooked by our presence could the same be true of the cats?
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If the stock market spooks you, park your money in two-year Treasury notes.
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Maybe she came in at bath time because being alone in her empty wing spooked her.
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Something spooked him, deep inside, somewhere inaccessible.
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The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.
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They are spooking away at the window and Charlie and Emma take some direct action and soak them in water.