snooper-pooper

snooper-pooper
 n.— «I was in a reconnaissance company; snooper-poopers in tennis shoes behind the enemy lines and rubber boats off of submarines is the type of thing we were being trained for.» —“James Warren: Recollections of the Eldest Warren Son” by Miriam Feingold Stein Earl Warren: The Governors Family July 26, 1976. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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