EGAVE

snipe

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun A fool; a blockhead.
  3. noun A shot fired from a concealed place.
  4. noun A member of the engineering department on a ship.
  5. noun A goal.
  6. verb To hunt snipe.
  7. verb To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
  8. verb To shoot with a sniper rifle.

Similar words

sharpshoot lash out round assault assail attack dowitcher shoot pull criticize

Often followed by

and at in is shooting are or hunt were

Word family

sniped sniper snipers snipes sniping

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