someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Used in a Sentence
spook
How to use spook in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for spook.
Editorial note
As long as we dont spook her, it works.
Examples14
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of spook gathered in one view.
a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for spook.
noun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
verb
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"
Example sentences
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 kill 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.
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 kill 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.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use spook in a sentence?
As long as we dont spook her, it works.
What does spook mean?
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
What part of speech is spook?
spook is commonly used as noun, verb.