Usually means: Attempt to extract information secretly.
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  1. pry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pry, pry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pry, pry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pry, pry: Wordnik
  7. pry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pry, pry: Wiktionary
  9. pry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pry, pry: Dictionary.com
  13. pry (1), pry (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PRY (disambiguation), Pry (software), Pry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pry: Rhymezone
  19. pry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PRY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. pry: Free Dictionary
  23. pry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pry: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pry: Legal dictionary

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  1. pry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PRY: Acronym Finder
  2. PRY: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. pry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pry: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
verb:  (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
noun:  An act of prying; a close and curious look.
noun:  A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
noun:  (East Anglia, US) A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever.
verb:  To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
verb:  (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
noun:  A surname.

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