Definition of sniped Sniped
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Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| snipe - Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | ||
| limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | ||
| wisp a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair" | ||
| gallinago gallinago, whole snipe common snipe of Eurasia and Africa | ||
| gallinago gallinago delicata, wilson's snipe American snipe | ||
| gallinago media, great snipe, woodcock snipe Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe | ||
| half snipe, limnocryptes minima, jacksnipe a small short-billed Old World snipe | ||
| snipe - a gunshot from a concealed location | ||
| gunfire, gunshot the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" | ||
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| snipe - hunt or shoot snipe | ||
| hunt down, track down, hunt, run pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" | ||
| snipe - attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" | ||
| attack, round, assail, lash out, assault | ||
| pick apart, criticise, criticize, knock act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either" | ||
| blackguard, clapperclaw, abuse, shout claw with the nails | ||
| claw attack as if with claws; "The politician clawed his rival" | ||
| vitriol subject to bitter verbal abuse | ||
| rip criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" | ||
| whang attack forcefully; "whang away at the school reform plan" | ||
| barrage, bombard direct high energy particles or radiation against | ||
| blister, scald, whip get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" | ||
| rubbish attack strongly | ||
| snipe - aim and shoot with great precision | ||
| sharpshoot | ||
| blast, shoot shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | ||
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Wiktionary 
- snipe (Noun)
Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. - snipe (Noun)
A fool; a blockhead. - snipe (Noun)
A shot fired from a concealed place. - snipe (Noun)
A cigarette butt. - snipe (Noun)
A member of the engineering department on a ship. - snipe (Noun)
A bottle of wine measuring 0. 1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo. - snipe (Noun)
An animated promotional logo during a television show. - snipe (Verb)
To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. - snipe (Verb)
To shoot with a sniper rifle . - snipe (Verb)
To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks. - snipe (Verb)
To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- snipe (n.)
Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. - snipe (n.)
A fool; a blockhead.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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snipe
snÄ«p, n. the name of a genus (Gallinago) and of a family (Scolopacidæ) of birds, order Grallæ, having a long straight flexible bill, frequenting marshy places all over Europe: a fool: a simpleton: (U.S.) a half-smoked cigar picked up on the street: a long bill or account. [Scand., Ice. snÃpa; Dut. snip, snep, Ger. schnepfe.] -
snipe
snīp, v.i. to pick off stealthily by a long rifle-shot, as from the surrounding hills into a camp, &c.—n. Snīp′ing, the foregoing practice
