6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun a quick look around (originally military slang)
originUK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0