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/spo͞ok/,
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spooks, plural;
  1. Frighten; unnerve
    • - they spooked a couple of grizzly bears
  2. (esp. of an animal) Take fright suddenly
    • - he'll spook if we make any noise
Noun
  1. A ghost

  2. A spy
    • - a CIA spook
  3. offensive. A contemptuous term for a black person

  1. creep: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
  2. frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"
  3. ghost: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
  4. Spook is an Australian band, comprising of Chanel Cole and Daniel Belle along with electronic producers Dennis Gascoigne and Leo Hede, better known as Statler & Waldorf.
  5. The Spook is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in Detective Comics #434 published in 1973.
  6. Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Unlike its sister shows The Jetsons, and Jonny Quest, it did not get a series revival in the 1980s.
  7. (Spooked (album)) Spooked is a 2004 album by Robyn Hitchcock in collaboration with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. It was recorded at Woodlands Studio in Nashville, TN.
  8. (Spooked (Fear Itself)) Spooked is the second episode of the NBC horror anthology Fear Itself.
  9. (Spooked (film)) Spooked is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel The Paradise Conspiracy. The film performed poorly at the box office after negative reviews despite its cast of prominent New Zealand actors.
  10. A spirit returning to haunt a place; A ghost or an apparition; A hobgoblin; A spy; A scare or fright; A black person; To scare or frighten; To startle or frighten an animal
  11. (spooked) A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence; Being spied upon by security or intelligence services
  12. (Spooking) Used in blackjack game. The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
  13. (Spooking) A term used to describe when a player stands behind the dealer at a blackjack table while trying to have a glance at his hole card, the player then signals to his partner which sits and play at the table.
  14. (Spooking) Frightening a fish spool the section of a reel that holds the coiled fishing line
  15. (Spooking) blackjack strategy games jargon for passing info to a playing partner after eyeing the dealer’s hole card. An illegal form of cheating.
  16. (Spooking) the skill of discovering the dealers hole card in blackjack, a spook is a player who gets that information and passes it on to his fellow players
  17. (spooking) Spying the dealers hold card from across the pit.
  18. (Spooks) A ghoul or a ghost. They take pleasure in scaring people.
  19. (Spooks) In various episodes, Sam and Dean often use the word "spooks" in place of ghosts or spirits.
  20. (Spooks) Small white porcelain insulators used to support neon tubes. Small holes in the insulator were used to thread tie wires through to secure the neon tube.
  21. Alarming a fish, such as making too much noise, movement or casting a shadow so fish become “spooked.”
  22. Benevolent spirit exclusively of America which comes from the legends of the Red Indians.
  23. [cf German spuk; Dutch spook etc.] A ghost, apparition, or hobgoblin, in theosophical writing applied to elementals elementaries, kama-rupic shells, and astral images.
  24. slang for any covert or clandestine operative, especially CIA or CIC agents; an operative from related agencies or similar organizations was called a "cousin". ...
  25. Topwater lure formally known as a Zara Spook. Resembles a cigar.