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spook::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| Type of | disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
Examples of spook
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When you read The Quitter, you'll see that everything would spook me about jobs.
From the usatoday.com
Charging for content, he worried, would shrink readership and spook advertisers.
From the economist.com
We don't spook easily, in fact I love watching scary films and television shows.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Still, just the possibility could spook financial markets if tensions escalate.
From the omaha.com
One was so entranced by his duties it didn't spook when my first .22 shot missed.
From the kansas.com
Using a flashlight in your boat is more likely to spook fish than attract them.
From the tennessean.com
Use a push pole and if they spook, let them settle down before approaching again.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Malema's call for the nationalisation of mines has threatened to spook investors.
From the guardian.co.uk
Sample's second-in-command at INSA gives off more of the air of a former spook.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Creep: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"
- Ghost: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
- 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.
- The Spook is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in Detective Comics #434 published in 1973.
- 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.
- (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.
- (Spooked (Fear Itself)) Spooked is the second episode of the NBC horror anthology Fear Itself.
- (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.
