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2009 July 24, “Spies like them”, in BBC News Magazine:
From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
2012 October 13, “Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold”, in The Economist:
The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks.
Some won't take spooks—hell, don't make no difference to me.
2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps, Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:
"[…] Dryades Street and that whole uptown neighborhood is gonna be worth a fortune once the white people take it back from you spooks and develop it. […]"
1845, Max Stirner, translated by Steven T. Byington, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; republished as The Ego and His Own, Dover, 2005:
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
1975, Robert O. Pasnau, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, page 124:
Commonly, the surgeons view nonsurgeons with disdain. The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called.
(blackjack,slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
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spook (third-person singular simple presentspooks, present participlespooking, simple past and past participlespooked)
(transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.
2022 August 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 963, page 71:
As that was happening, an East Midlands train came through at 90mph. George [a Labrador] was spooked as the train went past him and ran backwards across the neighbouring slow lines and off towards the sidings.
