Snipe

Quick meaning: Snipe is a noun meaning A fool; a blockhead.

Meaning

A fool; a blockhead.

More Meanings

1. A shot fired from a concealed place.
2. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
3. (ice hockey slang) A goal.
4. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
5. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
6. (intransitive, by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
7. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

Example Sentences

I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa.

The pleasures of Bay bird shooting should not be spoken of in the same sentence with cocking or sniping.

For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If I would time expend with such a snipe,/ But for my sport and profit.

Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Snipers do this to avoid bidding wars that escalate the bids to more than they want to pay.

Word Forms

• snipes
• sniping
• sniped

Synonyms for snipe

Depending on context, synonyms include snark, assail, assault, round, attack, sharpshoot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sharpshoot, round, assault, assail, attack, dowitcher.

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