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spook Noun

— A spook is a ghost or phantom. The building was haunted by a couple of spooks. — A spook is a scare or fright. The big spider gave me a spook. — A spook is a spy. — A spook is a black person.

spook Verb

— If you spook someone, you frighten or make someone nervous. The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.

spook

— verb frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action The noise spooked the horse — noun (= ghost, specter, spectre) a mental representation of some haunting experience he looked like he had seen a ghost it aroused specters from his past — noun (= creep) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Synonyms spook synonyms

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spook English » English

ghost spectre specter scare wraith frighten spirit phantom hobgoblin haunt goblin genie bogey apparition weirdy weirdo weirdie terrorize terrify startle spy shade poltergeist phantasm ogress creep vampire unnerve terrorise swagger supernatural visitant sprite scare off revelations revelation pixy phantasma party dress pall operative odd fellow intimidate haunter gnome freak fantasm eye-opener eccentric disembodied soul discovery

Topics spook topics

What do people use spook to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

Conjugation spook conjugation

How do you conjugate spook?

spook · verb

Examples spook examples

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Movie subtitles

Lordy Boss. a spook.
Boy, you spook easily. Huh.
Suddenly, Fred throws me into the arms of this spook, yelling at me that I'm unfaithful and behaving like a madman!
Hello, Spook.
Hey, Spook, treaty.
Is your wife a spook?
Guess I spook kind of easy these days.
Bridge, Radar. I've got a spook.
Definite spook, sir.
It's doing ten knots. It's got some power, but it's too small a spook to be a heavy vessel.
You look like a spook in fairy land.
Spook for yourself, darling.
Yeah, it's a midnight spook bit.
Okay, sure, the spook show.
With the spook of old Metford sitting on my shoulder. You certainly are a cheerful bloke.
Here you are, Spook.
I do hope that bloodthirsty spook hasn't raided the pantry.
There doesn't seem any point in tempting that spook of yours to barge in while we're eating.
From all I can gather about this wretched spook. you're not going to find it under that glass.
I'm not sure this wretched spook, as you call it, was responsible for what happened.
Well, Inspector, that blows up your spook theory.
Clean out our little spook, too. Yes, sir.
It's a spook town.
Hey, Joe. Take some of the boys and spook 'em up to the far end.
Is your wife a spook? - No.
Guess I spook kinda easy these days.
But suppose that spook starts howling.
Oh, your spook.
But it sounds like a spook.
Well, why do I always get hooked up with these spook details?
I think all this spook talk of Ben's is.got us all imagining things.
He. he thens a little now and spook.
First a spook, now a midget.
He's the real spook.
We've had enough of your spook!

News and current affairs

Second, short-term interest rates were so low that additional cuts would spook the financial markets: if even the Fed thought conditions warranted cuts, the argument went, businesses would respond not by increasing their investments but by reducing them.
Argentina, the international financial system's enfant terrible, could always be relied on to produce a gimmick to spook investors - in this case a nationalization of its private pension funds.
Any suggestion that monetary-policy decisions would in future be subject to political override would, to use a non-technical term, spook the markets.
Of course, Congress could spook investors and increase the likelihood of a bond-market attack by failing to raise the debt ceiling in 2013.
The question, then, is why has Iran walked the precipice for so long by building a visible breakout capability bound to spook the West, Israel, and its Arab neighbors?
A spectacular murder spree by Islamists could spook Americans enough to vote for the greatest fear-monger.

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