peek
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English *peken, piken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of peep and keek.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)
- To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
- To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
- 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories (ISBN 1573447978):
- A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
- 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You (ISBN 1459223284):
- Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
- 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories (ISBN 1573447978):
- (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
- We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
- 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)
Translations [edit]
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep
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(computingpeek, transitive) To retrieve the value from a memory address
