nose around

nose around (third-person singular simple present noses around, present participle nosing around, simple past and past participle nosed around)

1. To snoop around; to search in a place that one shouldn't.
   • 2004 June 10, Leslie Feinberg, “The love that dared to speak its name”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     The state had no business nosing around in people's sexual lives.