peek

Meanings

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.
3. To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
4. To take a look at; to check out.
5. To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

1. A quick glance or look.

1. Misspelling of pique.

1. Acronym of polyetheretherketone.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).