Spook

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Spook is a synonym of ghost or apparition, derived from the Dutch word spook.

Spook or spooks may also refer to:

People

• Slang for someone involved in espionage
• A racial slur for black people
• Per Spook (born 1939), Norwegian fashion designer
• Spook (nickname), a list of people

Places

• Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa
• Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida

Books and comics

• Spooks, by Joseph Delaney
• Spooks, by Colin Hawkins
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), a humorous, non-fiction book by Mary Roach
• Spook (comics), a DC Comics enemy of Batman
• Spooks, characters from The Wardstone Chronicles (published in the United States as The Last Apprentice)
• Spook, a character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id

Film and TV

• Spooks (1930 film), a 1930 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short
• Spooks (1953 film), a 1953 Three Stooges short
• Spooks: The Greater Good, a British 2015 spy film
• Spooks (TV series), a UK series broadcast from 2002 to 2011 (called MI-5 in some countries)
• Spooks: Code 9, a UK series broadcast in 2008
• Spook, character from Top Cat

Music

• The Spooks, an American hip-hop band

Albums

• Spooks, album by Pryda
• Spooks (album), a 2010 album by The Beautiful Girls

Songs

• "Spooks", composition by Lalo Schifrin
• "Spooks", by Louis Armstrong composed by Harold Karr Matt Dubey
• "Spooks", by Marion Brown from Three for Shepp 1966
• "Spooks", by Dance Gavin Dance from Downtown Battle Mountain II
• "Spooks", by Jonny Greenwood from Inherent Vice soundtrack

Other

• "The Spook", emblem of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, a United States Navy fighter-bomber
• Mine Protected Combat Vehicle, a Zimbabwean armoured fighting vehicle nicknamed the "Spook"
• Spooks (video game), a 1985 video game
• A concept of Max Stirner's philosophy

See also

• Spook Bridge, an abandoned bridge over the Withlacoochee River, Georgia, United States
• Spooked (disambiguation)
• Spooky (disambiguation)