Associations to the word «Snipe»

SNIPE, noun. (plural: snipes or snipe) 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. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.

SNIPE, verb. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.

SNIPE, verb. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

SNIPE, verb. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.

SNIPE, verb. (intransitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.

SNIPE, verb. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.

SNIPE, noun. (slang) A cigarette butt.

SNIPE, noun. An animated promotional logo during a television show.

SNIPE, noun. 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.

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. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

SNIPE, verb. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

SNIPE HUNT, noun. (idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.

SNIPE HUNT, verb. (intransitive) To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt.

SNIPE HUNTS, noun. Plural of snipe hunt

SNIPE, noun. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks.

SNIPE, noun. A gunshot from a concealed location.

SNIPE, verb. Hunt or shoot snipe.

SNIPE, verb. Aim and shoot with great precision.

SNIPE, verb. Attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker".