Meaning

12 senses
  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.

    Schnepfe

    бека́сbekás

    бека́сbekás

  2. A fool; a blockhead.

  3. A shot fired from a concealed place.

    a gunshot from a concealed location

  4. (slang)A member of the engineering department on a ship.

  5. (slang)A goal.

  6. (slang)A cigarette butt.

  7. An end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away.

  8. An animated promotional logo during a television show.

  9. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.

  10. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.

  11. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

  12. A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out, political criticism, etc.).

Examples

6 sentences
  1. This game has no sniper rifles, so you can't snipe in it.

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  2. This is a great rifle to snipe with, if you can handle the recoil.

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  3. If you so much as lift your head an inch, that bastard is going to snipe you.

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  4. I can send you a picture of a fruit-garden that is guaranteed to nerd-snipe you.

  5. Ziri got sniped.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
bird of the family Scolopacidae:
Русский
By meaning 1
bird of the family Scolopacidae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
bird of the family Scolopacidae:

Origin

From Middle English snipe, snype (“a type of bird”), from Old Norse snípa, as in mýrisnípa

From Middle English snipe, snype (“a type of bird”), from Old Norse snípa, as in mýrisnípa (“moor snipe”). Akin to Norwegian snipe.

Probably from snip or a cognate

Either from sneap or a figurative development from Etymology 1.

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