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View definitions for nose around

nose around

verb as in beat the bushes

verb as in prowl

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Example Sentences

While the milking was in progress the colts came galloping up to nose around for salt and they scared the cows.

You'll go sticking your nose around that domicile some time and get it knocked off!

Just at that moment a big blue sports roadster pushed a bright chromium nose around the corner of the house.

If we can break out a hundred acres, even, the cattle can nose around and get down to the grass.

If anyone comes prying and poking his nose around the door, he will quickly find himself in the road again.

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On this page you'll find 182 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nose around, such as: forage, poke around, search, and search through.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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