Definitions for snipe

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Spelling: [snahyp]

IPA: /snaɪp/

Snipe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in snipe (einps).

Definitions for snipe

noun

1. any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
2. any of several other long-billed birds, as some sandpipers.
3. a shot, usually from a hidden position.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot or hunt snipe.
2. to shoot at individuals as opportunity offers from a concealed or distant position:
3. to attack a person or a person's work with petulant or snide criticism, especially anonymously or from a safe distance.

Origin of snipe

1275-1325; Middle English snype (noun) Old Norse -snīpa (in mȳrisnīpa moor snipe); cognate with Norwegian snipa, Icelandic snīpa; compare Danish sneppe, German Schnepfe

Examples for snipe

They used their monologues to snipe at each other, with Letterman piling on Jay just for kicks.

A third stopped, and snipe trotted forward to chat to the driver.

It might have been snipe and it might have been bristling boars.

And there, where the new church stands, I shot my first snipe.

snipe had been kicked out of his home, in the Bronx, and needed a place to crash.

There the Senecas adopted her into the snipe clan of their nation.

On such a day the snipe will be in such a meadow, and the golden plover in such a field.

The only birds shot as game in the colony are quail and snipe.

How much nearer do you get to shooting a snipe by being told how not to take your aim?

"That is the way the kili (snipe) gets the uga (crab) from its shell," he said.