Usually means: Agent secretly gathering intelligence information.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spy: Merriam-Webster
  3. spy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spy, spy: Wordnik
  8. spy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spy: Wiktionary
  10. spy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spy: Dictionary.com
  14. spy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.P.Y, SPY (disambiguation), SPY, Spy (Carly Simon album), Spy (Super Junior song), Spy (TV series), Spy (band), Spy (disambiguation), Spy (film), Spy (gridiron football), Spy (magazine), Spy, The Spy (Cooper), The Spy (Cooper novel), The Spy (Cussler novel), The Spy (TV series), The Spy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spy: Rhymezone
  20. spy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spy, Spy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. spy: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. spy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. spy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SPY: Acronym Finder
  3. SPY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. spy: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Spy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See spied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (espionage) A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
noun:  (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a spy.
verb:  (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
verb:  (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
verb:  (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.

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