[f. SNEAK v.; see also SNEAK-CUP.] A mean, servile or cringing person; a sneak; a shirk.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., III. iii. 99 (Q.). The prince is a iacke, a sneakeup.

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1620.  Shelton, Quix., II. xlv. 299. You must set other manner of Coltes vpon me then this poore nasty sneake-vp.

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1775.  Ash, Sneaksby, a sneakup.

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1798.  T. Morton, Secrets, III. 1. But he is such a Sneakup! Were he a boy of mettle, I would adopt him.

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  attrib.  1851.  Jerrold, St. Giles (1852), I. 305. It’s only your sneak-up chaps, that are afraid of the glass, that get into trouble,… and catch rheumatism.

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