nose around

English

Verb

nose around (third-person singular simple present noses around, present participle nosing around, simple past and past participle nosed around)

  1. To snoop around; to search in a place that one shouldn't.
    • 2004 June 10, Leslie Feinberg, “The love that dared to speak its name”, in Workers World‎:
      The state had no business nosing around in people's sexual lives.
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