peek

Meanings

Verb

  • To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
  • To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
  • To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

Noun

Origin

  • From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken, probably a fusion of Middle English pepen and keken, kiken, equivalent to a .

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