Snipe

/snaɪp/ · noun

Meaning

Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Tip: Adding a few cents to your maximum bid is particularly effective when you're sniping. (..) Last-second bidding is called sniping, and 15 percent of all eBay auctions are won within the last minute.

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.

The successful sniper makes one bid only—and makes it count. Sniping happens on eBay because the end time of each auction is rigidly enforced. If you know that an auction ends at 12:01:30, you can time your snipe to hit at 12:01:29, leaving no time for any other bidders to trump your bid.

The breakthrough duly arrived after 35 minutes, an absolute beauty of a team goal scored by Lozano. First Khedira was robbed deep in the Mexico half. Hernández sniped away from Jérôme Boateng and Mats Hummels. A flurry of skimmed passes across the wide-open spaces of the Germany defence left Lozano in space in the area. With the stadium howling for him to shoot he cut inside Özil, who had tracked back to right-back, and buried the ball past Neuer.

[R]egular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them. […] The student snipe should say something like, "FOR STUDENTS ONLY: 5 EVENTS FOR AS LITTLE AS $20.00!"

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• snipes
• snipe
• sniping
• sniped

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