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Definition of spook in English: spooknoun spuːkspuk 1informal A ghost. 鬼 Example sentencesExamples - The Ghosts Of Pac-Man asks a number of searching questions about the blamanche-like spooks in the early eighties video arcade game.
- Oh, yeah a stupid Xmas spook shows up to complete the episode's main purpose.
- They said that he only came out at night to eat cats and squirrels, and he was the local spook.
- As the end credits rolled I thought to myself, ‘Hey, where the heck are the spooks?’
- Ireland is, after all, the ancestral home of spooks, goblins and faeries, and this piece seems haunted six times over.
- ‘I was using the word spooks,’ Silk wearily protests, ‘in its customary and primary meaning: ‘spook’ as a specter or a ghost.’
- And nothing is scary here - not the glitter ghosts, not the fake cemetery spooks that make Ed Wood's graveyard look downright realistic, and definitely not the dopey looking undead who stumble drunkenly around.
- In this one, the team helps Walter Catlett and his daughters oust the spooks who are haunting the old house they've inherited, which is right next door to a nightclub.
- Judge Steve Evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one bit.
- In their flower-powered custom van, the Mystery Machine, this teenage detective agency prowls the countryside in search of suspicious spooks and phony phantoms.
- Don't let the undeniably spooky DVD box art fool you: That toothy spook only appears a few times and not in any sort of pervasive or effective manner.
- However, Scary Stories has neither the laughs nor the spooks to make it a howling success.
- Once the spooks speak, we get a little immersive action.
- Lillard is psychic, which means he can find a spook if it gets out, except, when it comes to it, he can't.
2North American informal A spy. 〈主北美〉间谍 一个中央情报局的间谍。 Example sentencesExamples - The picture is best when it makes fun of the pompous self-importance of spooks, and dares to portray the political and military establishment as an empire of idiots.
- The recent string of intelligence failures has provoked calls for creating a Director of National Intelligence who would have broad oversight over all spooks.
- A lip-reading spook may be following an outdoor conversation through binoculars.
- A trip to a deserted carnival turns up a team of spooks intent on scaring everyone away.
- ‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
- He's a joy as the completely amoral spook who suddenly finds himself sliding out of his depth in a vortex of shifting loyalties.
- Upon returning to the U.S., Williams hears from a friend, an ex-Pentagon spook named Ken Ritz.
- Burke hooks Clayton in by suggesting that his father, who died under mysterious circumstances 10 years earlier, may actually have been a CIA spook as well.
- ‘Nobody ever heard of paying spooks until we began the practice,’ said ancient Abraham, cackling wheezily.
- The Pentagon vigorously opposes that recommendation, but even a rookie spook can figure out that big changes are in the air.
- When the original pilot for The Dating Game goes nowhere, he is recruited by a CIA spook and sent to Mexico to make his first kill.
- I really did want to write about crime, espionage, and politics, from the position that all spooks have got to be bad guys.
- Dredged from central casting are U.S. spooks on a renegade mission to kill him.
- I wouldn't let them operate or give me a shot until a spook from our Embassy in Mexico City came down and stayed with me day and night in the bed next to me for four days.
Synonyms secret agent, undercover agent, enemy agent, foreign agent, secret service agent, intelligence agent, double agent, counterspy, industrial spy, fifth columnist, mole, plant, scout 3US dated, offensive A black person. 〈冒犯，旧，主美〉黑鬼
verb spuːkspuk [with object]informal 1Frighten; unnerve. 惊吓；恐吓 they spooked a couple of grizzly bears 他们惊吓了几只灰熊。 Example sentencesExamples - It isn't just the ill-timed expansion that's spooking investors.
- It somewhat spooked Russell, according to the liner notes.
- And in hopes of spooking overseas investors, the union is making the case that the sale might be illegal under Taiwan's constitution.
- That sparked one of the few signs of rebellion at a hospital where the administration has moved gingerly to avoid spooking doctors.
- Still, something about Shooter's presence and the similarity of the stories spooks Rainey.
- Even if he gives Congress such evidence in the next few weeks, how intelligent was it to spook all our allies first and then drag out the evidence?
- Today business buyers are spooked by luxury deals, since it's tough to predict how far this downturn will go.
- The results were good enough to spook the competition.
- Last year it ran into problems with regulators and the tax authorities, temporarily spooking investors.
- A horror story's got to spook you and intrigue you.
- Though not particularly large, they were barking wildly and getting under their hooves with enthusiasm, spooking all the horses.
- Of course, the money's not going back to the stock market, which spooks the central bankers.
- But it is a policy that must be pursued on the quiet so as not to spook the country's growing legion of foreign creditors.
- The tale spooked the executives enough to make them reexamine their assumptions about oil price and supply.
- Her cell phone goes off and spooks Stevie's steed.
- Urban myths are the stuff of nightmares; the stories people tell to spook each other, such as the two lovers in a remote lane, at a time when an escaped mental patient is on the loose.
- Nevertheless, he acknowledges that the company struggled with execution issues and that his departure spooked investors.
- That prospect is spooking Japan's markets in the run-up to Upper House elections on July 11.
- Gee, a ghost turned on the tap and spooked somebody.
- Detective Harris, to what do I owe the pleasure of you spooking my friends away?
Synonyms appal, horrify, shock, shake, shake up - 1.1no object (especially of an animal) take fright suddenly.
（尤指动物）突然受惊 he'll spook if we make any noise 如果我们弄出任何响声，他就会受惊。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps at an even slower pace, with more stunning images and settings, this movie would really spook.
- A minute later, her horse spooked and Kaz spooked along with her.
Synonyms frighten, make afraid, make fearful, make nervous, panic, throw into a panic
OriginEarly 19th century: from Dutch, of unknown origin. Rhymesarchduke, chibouk, duke, Farouk, fluke, kook, Luke, nuke, peruke, puke, rebuke, Seljuk, snook, souk, spruik, stook, tuque, zouk Definition of spook in US English: spooknounspukspo͞ok 1informal A ghost. 鬼 Example sentencesExamples - Lillard is psychic, which means he can find a spook if it gets out, except, when it comes to it, he can't.
- However, Scary Stories has neither the laughs nor the spooks to make it a howling success.
- Don't let the undeniably spooky DVD box art fool you: That toothy spook only appears a few times and not in any sort of pervasive or effective manner.
- As the end credits rolled I thought to myself, ‘Hey, where the heck are the spooks?’
- Judge Steve Evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one bit.
- The Ghosts Of Pac-Man asks a number of searching questions about the blamanche-like spooks in the early eighties video arcade game.
- And nothing is scary here - not the glitter ghosts, not the fake cemetery spooks that make Ed Wood's graveyard look downright realistic, and definitely not the dopey looking undead who stumble drunkenly around.
- Oh, yeah a stupid Xmas spook shows up to complete the episode's main purpose.
- ‘I was using the word spooks,’ Silk wearily protests, ‘in its customary and primary meaning: ‘spook’ as a specter or a ghost.’
- In their flower-powered custom van, the Mystery Machine, this teenage detective agency prowls the countryside in search of suspicious spooks and phony phantoms.
- Once the spooks speak, we get a little immersive action.
- They said that he only came out at night to eat cats and squirrels, and he was the local spook.
- Ireland is, after all, the ancestral home of spooks, goblins and faeries, and this piece seems haunted six times over.
- In this one, the team helps Walter Catlett and his daughters oust the spooks who are haunting the old house they've inherited, which is right next door to a nightclub.
2North American informal A spy. 〈主北美〉间谍 一个中央情报局的间谍。 Example sentencesExamples - Upon returning to the U.S., Williams hears from a friend, an ex-Pentagon spook named Ken Ritz.
- The recent string of intelligence failures has provoked calls for creating a Director of National Intelligence who would have broad oversight over all spooks.
- The Pentagon vigorously opposes that recommendation, but even a rookie spook can figure out that big changes are in the air.
- Burke hooks Clayton in by suggesting that his father, who died under mysterious circumstances 10 years earlier, may actually have been a CIA spook as well.
- A trip to a deserted carnival turns up a team of spooks intent on scaring everyone away.
- He's a joy as the completely amoral spook who suddenly finds himself sliding out of his depth in a vortex of shifting loyalties.
- A lip-reading spook may be following an outdoor conversation through binoculars.
- I really did want to write about crime, espionage, and politics, from the position that all spooks have got to be bad guys.
- When the original pilot for The Dating Game goes nowhere, he is recruited by a CIA spook and sent to Mexico to make his first kill.
- The picture is best when it makes fun of the pompous self-importance of spooks, and dares to portray the political and military establishment as an empire of idiots.
- ‘Nobody ever heard of paying spooks until we began the practice,’ said ancient Abraham, cackling wheezily.
- ‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
- Dredged from central casting are U.S. spooks on a renegade mission to kill him.
- I wouldn't let them operate or give me a shot until a spook from our Embassy in Mexico City came down and stayed with me day and night in the bed next to me for four days.
Synonyms secret agent, undercover agent, enemy agent, foreign agent, secret service agent, intelligence agent, double agent, counterspy, industrial spy, fifth columnist, mole, plant, scout 3US offensive, dated A black person. 〈冒犯，旧，主美〉黑鬼
verbspukspo͞ok [with object]informal 1Frighten; unnerve. 惊吓；恐吓 they spooked a couple of grizzly bears 他们惊吓了几只灰熊。 Example sentencesExamples - A horror story's got to spook you and intrigue you.
- Detective Harris, to what do I owe the pleasure of you spooking my friends away?
- That sparked one of the few signs of rebellion at a hospital where the administration has moved gingerly to avoid spooking doctors.
- It isn't just the ill-timed expansion that's spooking investors.
- The results were good enough to spook the competition.
- The tale spooked the executives enough to make them reexamine their assumptions about oil price and supply.
- And in hopes of spooking overseas investors, the union is making the case that the sale might be illegal under Taiwan's constitution.
- It somewhat spooked Russell, according to the liner notes.
- Last year it ran into problems with regulators and the tax authorities, temporarily spooking investors.
- Nevertheless, he acknowledges that the company struggled with execution issues and that his departure spooked investors.
- That prospect is spooking Japan's markets in the run-up to Upper House elections on July 11.
- Still, something about Shooter's presence and the similarity of the stories spooks Rainey.
- Gee, a ghost turned on the tap and spooked somebody.
- Of course, the money's not going back to the stock market, which spooks the central bankers.
- Even if he gives Congress such evidence in the next few weeks, how intelligent was it to spook all our allies first and then drag out the evidence?
- Though not particularly large, they were barking wildly and getting under their hooves with enthusiasm, spooking all the horses.
- Her cell phone goes off and spooks Stevie's steed.
- Urban myths are the stuff of nightmares; the stories people tell to spook each other, such as the two lovers in a remote lane, at a time when an escaped mental patient is on the loose.
- Today business buyers are spooked by luxury deals, since it's tough to predict how far this downturn will go.
- But it is a policy that must be pursued on the quiet so as not to spook the country's growing legion of foreign creditors.
Synonyms appal, horrify, shock, shake, shake up - 1.1no object (especially of an animal) take fright suddenly.
（尤指动物）突然受惊 he'll spook if we make any noise 如果我们弄出任何响声，他就会受惊。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps at an even slower pace, with more stunning images and settings, this movie would really spook.
- A minute later, her horse spooked and Kaz spooked along with her.
Synonyms frighten, make afraid, make fearful, make nervous, panic, throw into a panic
OriginEarly 19th century: from Dutch, of unknown origin. |