ALL meanings of snipe
snipe
S s - noun snipe shot targeted at sb 1
- noun snipe snide remark, criticism 1
- noun snipe wading bird 1
- noun plural snipe 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. 1
- noun plural snipe any of several other long-billed birds, as some sandpipers. 1
- noun plural snipe a shot, usually from a hidden position. 1
- verb without object snipe to shoot or hunt snipe. 1
- verb without object snipe to shoot at individuals as opportunity offers from a concealed or distant position: The enemy was sniping from the roofs. 1
- verb without object snipe to attack a person or a person's work with petulant or snide criticism, especially anonymously or from a safe distance. 1
- verb snipe If someone snipes at you, they criticize you. 0
- verb snipe To snipe at someone means to shoot at them from a hidden position. 0
- countable noun snipe A snipe is a type of bird with a very long beak which lives in wet areas of land. 0
- noun snipe any of various birds of the genus Gallinago (or Capella) and related genera, such as G. gallinago (common or Wilson's snipe), of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes 0
- noun snipe any of various similar related birds, such as certain sandpipers and curlews 0
- noun snipe a shot, esp a gunshot, fired from a place of concealment 0
- verb snipe to attack (a person or persons) with a rifle from a place of concealment 0
- verb snipe to criticize adversely a person or persons from a position of security 0
- verb snipe to hunt or shoot snipe 0
- noun snipe any of various shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) with a long, slender, flexible bill used in probing for food, esp. a genus (Gallinago) living chiefly in marshy places 0
- noun snipe a shot from a hidden position 0
- noun snipe a cigar butt or cigarette butt 0
- intransitive verb snipe to shoot from a hidden position, as at individuals of an enemy force 0
- intransitive verb snipe to direct an attack (at someone) in a sly or underhanded way 0