Spook in a sentence as a noun

As long as we dont spook her, it works.

If you're an emacsen, M-x spook will do the trick

He's a spook because he dressed neatly and was in good shape?

Horses spook easily, and **** people in the process.

Spot on. It always struck me as an elaborate joke just to spook the authorities and see what kind of a reaction they would get.

When i was twelve or so, I remember being attacked on a subway by two hoodlums who singled me out because I was a "spook.

The M-x spook feature of emacs is not a new thing!I was just looking at the code for that, 5 minutes before I read your comment.

Spook in a sentence as a verb

Seems like it would be easy-mode patrol - grab a coffee, walk outside, and spook a few punks into moving along instead of sticking around.

Dogs inherently have a hunting and chasing instinct, so in the wild a dog will try and spook a cat to make it run, and then chase it and try and **** it if it does.

None of their staff are going to be inspired by Thorsten's lack of conviction and worse, its going to spook whatever remaining customers and developers they have.

What do you think would happen if a politician came to the media and revealed that some spook had tried to blackmail him for proposing an anti-surveillance bill?

Note: I'm not flagging down any of these stories, but I think there's some "spook fatigue" settling in with so many NSA stories, with only a fraction of them saying anything new.

> Isn't this an act of espionage?I'm no spook, but I'd be surprised if the usual protocol for such situations is to advertise the presence of a camera on a high-traffic website.

No one is going to get an award for "brilliant work in declassification", and the last thing any spook wants for her career is to be yelled at for declassifying something embarrassing.

Spook definitions

noun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

See also: creep weirdo weirdie weirdy

noun

a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

See also: ghost shade wraith specter spectre

verb

frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"