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• n  a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep

• The Duke had obviously decided to make the best of an embarrassing peephole routine and spoke engagingly, if obliquely, of the decision that rocked an empire: "We both feel that .
• THE caretaker peers through the peephole in the front gate of the walled villa overlooking Cannes, disappears, then returns to admit the visitor.
• Tiptoe to the peephole, if you see someone suspicious, get away from the door.

• spyhole
• eyehole

News & Articles

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• Xentry Wants You To Reuse Your Old Smartphone As A Wi-Fi Door Caller Display
  U.S. startup, Xavage Technologies, has created a phone-housing-plus-app combo that turns an old iPhone or Galaxy S Fascinate into a door-mounted caller-display that live streams video so you can see who's at the door and communicate with them via your own smartphone. The Xentry phone is mounted on the inside of your front door, with a customised peephole attachment so it can spy on who's outside.
  June 27, 2013 - TechCrunch

Quotes

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• President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in Inquirer.net
  What is important is to provide civil society a peephole into Customs operations but in a way that won't disrupt the main job of raising revenues, which might be disrupted if excessive oversight powers are delegated to the private sector,...
• DJ Quik in New York Times
  Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have... John Steinbeck http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGyL_Ingw8_c93dEayqMY9eYTfHqw Wire http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.wirenh.com/Literary/Tome_Raider/%27Cannery_Row%27_201005064092.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNET5D6NJZbgjfQiBdjeAGTGelcibQ May 6, 2010 73150 97851 peephole You see me in a sea of people/But I'm not equal," DJ Quik raps on "Cream." "I'm the prequel/I'm the subject in the peephole."