Definitions for spooks

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Spelling: [spook]

IPA: /spuk/

Spooks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in spooks (koopss).

Definitions for spooks

noun

1. Informal. a ghost; specter.
2. Slang. a ghostwriter.
3. Slang. an eccentric person.
4. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
5. Slang. an espionage agent; spy.
6. Informal. a ghost; specter.
7. Slang. a ghostwriter.
8. Slang. an eccentric person.
9. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
10. Slang. an espionage agent; spy.

verb (used with object)

1. to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter.
2. Informal. to frighten; scare.
3. to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter.
4. Informal. to frighten; scare.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to become frightened or scared:
2. Informal. to become frightened or scared:

Origin of spooks

1795-1805, Americanism; Dutch; cognate with German Spuk

Examples for spooks

Then you can come back at your leisure and keep the spook compact.

Few people knew better than Orson Welles how to spook an entire country.

I'll round up this spook tonight for good, and then the vassal's task is done.

It gets me what she was doing in that spook place alone at night.

I'd have given more for her if I had known she owned a spook.

Richard Nixon continues to spook the nation from beyond the grave with the latest eavesdrop on taped Oval Office conversations.

The exciting evening with the Hoag spook had worked no lasting harm.

Authorities in Moscow claim to have arrested an American spook wearing wigs and carrying an incriminating letter.

(Interrupting and looking at Duke) In just what way do you connect this spook with the treasure?

Here, according to report, the spook sank into a sunken grave.

Here, according to report, the spook sank into a sunken grave.

The exciting evening with the Hoag spook had worked no lasting harm.

It gets me what she was doing in that spook place alone at night.

Few people knew better than Orson Welles how to spook an entire country.

Authorities in Moscow claim to have arrested an American spook wearing wigs and carrying an incriminating letter.

I'd have given more for her if I had known she owned a spook.

Richard Nixon continues to spook the nation from beyond the grave with the latest eavesdrop on taped Oval Office conversations.

(Interrupting and looking at Duke) In just what way do you connect this spook with the treasure?

Then you can come back at your leisure and keep the spook compact.

I'll round up this spook tonight for good, and then the vassal's task is done.