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Snipe Very Common

Snipe has 11 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

a gunshot from a concealed location

3

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

4

A cigarette butt.

5

A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

Verb
1

hunt or shoot snipe

2

aim and shoot with great precision

3

attack in speech or writing

"The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"

4

To hunt snipe.

5

To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

See Also
snipiness piccolo coenocorypha snipelike blockhead lymnocryptes member sniper rifle
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
shorebird gunfire hunt blast knock
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
whole snipe Wilson's snipe great snipe jacksnipe dowitcher abuse claw vitriol rip whang bombard blister rubbish
Rhyming Words
ipe ripe wipe pipe kipe yipe hipe sipe stipe slipe flipe gripe swipe tripe loipe repipe unwipe rewipe euripe unripe
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