SNEAK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sneak in mean? 

• SNEAK IN (verb)
  The verb SNEAK IN has 2 senses:

1. enter surreptitiously

2. insert casually

  Familiarity information: SNEAK IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNEAK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter surreptitiously

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

creep in; sneak in

Context example:

In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in

Hypernyms (to "sneak in" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insert casually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

insert; slip in; sneak in; stick in

Context example:

She slipped in a reference to her own work

Hypernyms (to "sneak in" is one way to...):

add; append; supply (state or say further)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sneak in"):

spatchcock (interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Steerforth said there was nothing of the sneak in Traddles, and we all felt that to be the highest praise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)