SPOOK meaning: Ghostly figure causing fear, unease

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word spook:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

spook: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spook: Merriam-Webster
spook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
spook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
spook: Collins English Dictionary
spook: Vocabulary.com
spook: Wordnik
spook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
spook: Wiktionary
spook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
spook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
spook: Infoplease Dictionary
spook: Dictionary.com
spook (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
spook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Spook (Top Cat character), Spook (comics), Spook (disambiguation), Spook (film), Spook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Spook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
spook: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
spook: Rhymezone
Spook, spook (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
SPOOK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
spook: FreeDictionary.org
spook: Mnemonic Dictionary
spook: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Spook (disambiguation), spook: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
spook: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Spook (offensive): Racial Slur Database
spook, spook, spook, spook: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See spooked as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (informal) A ghost or phantom.
▸ noun:  A hobgoblin.
▸ noun:  (informal) A scare or fright.
▸ noun:  (espionage, slang) An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
▸ noun:  (slang, dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
▸ noun:  (philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, medicine) A psychiatrist.
▸ noun:  (blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become frightened (by something startling).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To haunt.

Similar:

specter, ghost, wraith, weirdo, schmuck, weirdy, shade, weirdie, creep, spectre, more...

Opposite:

calm, comfort, reassure, soothe, relax

Types:

ghost, specter, phantom, wraith, spirit, more...

Phrases:

Spook Country, Spook Hill, per spook, more...

Adjectives:

old, real, little, good, chief, professional, former, big, poor, goddamned, only

Colors:

black, midnight blue, charcoal, deep purple, blood red, more...