spy out

Meaning

1. spy sth out

   to get information about sth

In the movies · 2

• all the niggers and spics are out of America?"The Boondock Saints1999
• Well, I might ask the same of you, sir, traveling around the moor, spying out on everybody.The Hound of the Baskervilles1939

From the same entry

• spy out the land
• spy on