sneak

sneak is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
2. past tense & past participle. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
3. transitive verb. To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
4. noun. A mean, sneaking fellow.
5. noun. A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
6. noun. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

   Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stoolie, stoolpigeon

7. noun. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

   Synonyms: prowler, stalker

8. noun. a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
9. verb. to go stealthily or furtively

   "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

   Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot

10. verb. pass on stealthily

    "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

    Synonyms: slip

11. verb. make off with belongings of others

    Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe

12. verb. put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner

    "sneak a look"

    "sneak a cigarette"

13. adjective. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

    "a furtive manner"

    "a sneak attack"

    Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

Synonyms

canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stoolie, stoolpigeon, prowler, stalker, creep, mouse, pussyfoot, slip, abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sneak:

kanes, skean, snake

Common word forms

sneaks, sneaked, sneaker, sneaking

Words from these letters

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