Usually means: Quick look without being noticed.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word peek:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. peek: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peek: Merriam-Webster
  3. peek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peek: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peek: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peek, peek: Wordnik
  8. peek: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PEEK, Peek, peek: Wiktionary
  10. peek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peek: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Peek, peek: Dictionary.com
  14. peek (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. peek: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PEEK, Peek (data type operation), Peek (mobile Internet device), Peek (mobile email device), Peek (software), Peek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Peek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. peek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. peek: Rhymezone
  20. peek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. peek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. peek: FreeDictionary.org
  23. peek: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. peek: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEEK: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PEEK (disambiguation), peek: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. peek: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PEEK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. peek: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. peek, peek: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. peek: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See peeked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
verb:  (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
verb:  (computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
noun:  A quick glance or look.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Misspelling of pique. [(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.]
noun:  Acronym of polyetheretherketone. [A colorless organic polymer thermoplastic used in engineering applications.]

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