peek

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See also: Peek, PEEK, and peek’

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Etymology 1

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep +‎ keek.

Verb

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

  1. (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
  2. (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
    • 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, →ISBN:
      A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
    • 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You, →ISBN:
      Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
  3. (computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
    Coordinate term: poke
    • 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.
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Noun

peek (plural peeks)

  1. A quick glance or look.
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Etymology 2

Noun

peek

  1. Misspelling of pique.

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Basque

Noun

peek

  1. ergative plural of pe

Hlai

Etymology

From Proto-Hlai *pʰaːk (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *paːk (Norquest, 2015).

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Adjective

peek

  1. high
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