peeping tom

1. 1.

   a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others

   Synonymsvoyeurpeeper

   Broaderspectator

Questions about peeping tom

What does peeping tom mean?

peeping tom means "a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others".

What is another word for peeping tom?

Close synonyms include voyeur, peeper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peeping tom a common word?

peeping tom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.