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peephole

noun as in hole to look through

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He heard a knock on his door, looked out the peephole and saw “at least 20 police officers with guns drawn.”

He then heard a second, "very aggressive knock" but did not see anyone when he looked through the peephole.

From BBC

A few minutes later, Fortson heard a louder knock but didn’t see anyone when he looked through the peephole, Crump said, citing the woman’s account.

The woman said she heard a knock on her door after her husband had left for work that morning, looked through the peephole and saw a man, later identified as Lai, holding an Amazon box and clipboard, according to the charges.

Stretched onto my tippy toes, I peeked through the peephole.

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

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