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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of peek.

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Examples

  • Hey Singfom, be careful who you call stupid when you don't even know how to spell "peeked" - not "peaked".

    CBS Poll Has Mostly Good News For Obama On Race Speech 2009

  • Party observers would watch the process and make sure nobody "peeked" - and record the tamper seal serial numbers.

    AZ Probe of Possible Vote Rigging May Stall Case 2007

  • (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEVE HINCKLEY, WEST HARTFORD POLICE: I said, I think there's a body in the crawlspace in there, kind of peeked in there, and she was kind of -- she was sitting down like in a fetal position, sitting down, and she made no noise, no nothing, and we kind of had to assure her that everything was safe and it was all right to come out.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007 2007

  • STEVE HINCKLEY, WEST HARTFORD POLICE: I said, I think there's a body in the crawl space in there, kind of peeked in there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007 2007

  • I even went to Miami, and I picked up the children, and I was at the house, and he just kind of peeked out the window.

    CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2004 2004

  • Obed went and "peeked," while Hitty sauntered slowly on.

    Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

  • The child peered ( "peeked" as they say in Polpier) into the long narrow chamber, so awesomely dark at its far end, and snatched a fearful joy.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The horses blundered and "peeked," stumbled, picked themselves up again, always seeming to have a leg to spare.

    Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

  • I do not charge that the public's envelopes were opened and "peeked" into before the "System's" bids were sealed.

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • She kind of peeked out under it, but I couldn't see her very well, and I didn't think much about her because I was looking at him.

    Gypsy's Cousin Joy Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877

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