peek

• enPR: pēk, IPA^(key): /piːk/

  Homophones: peak, peke, pique

• Rhymes: -iːk

• peak, peke (obsolete)

From Middle English *peken, piken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of peep and keek.

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

1. To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
2. To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
   • 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories →ISBN:

     A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.

   • 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You →ISBN:

     Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.

3. (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
   • 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)

     We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

• peekable
• sneak peek

peek

1. Misspelling of pique.

• Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke