sneak up

1. 1.

   advance stealthily or unnoticed

   “Age creeps up on you”

   Synonymscreep up

   Broaderadvance

Questions about sneak up

What does sneak up mean?

sneak up means "advance stealthily or unnoticed".

What is another word for sneak up?

Close synonyms include creep up. 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 sneak up a common word?

sneak up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.