Usually means: Move quietly and secretly; stealthily.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sneak:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sneak: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sneak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sneak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sneak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sneak: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sneak, sneak: Wordnik
  7. sneak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sneak: Wiktionary
  9. sneak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sneak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sneak: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sneak: Dictionary.com
  13. sneak (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sneak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sneak (disambiguation), Sneak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sneak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sneak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sneak: Rhymezone
  19. sneak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sneak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sneak: Free Dictionary
  22. sneak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sneak: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sneak: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sneak: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNEAK: Acronym Finder
  2. sneak: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sneak, sneak, sneak, sneak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sneak: Urban Dictionary
  3. Sneak: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See sneaked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
noun:  The act of sneaking
noun:  A cheat; a con artist.
noun:  An informer; a tell-tale.
noun:  (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
noun:  (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
noun:  (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
verb:  (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
verb:  (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
verb:  (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
adjective:  In advance; before release to the general public.
adjective:  In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

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