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

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A fool; a blockhead.

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A shot fired from a concealed place.

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(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.

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(ice hockey slang) A goal.

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To hunt snipe.

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To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

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(by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.

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To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.

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

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(ice hockey slang) To score a goal.

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To move the ball quickly in a different direction.

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A cigarette butt.

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An animated promotional logo during a television show.

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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.

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A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.

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A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

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A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc.

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To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

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To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.

Examples of snipes in a Sentence

The fifth order (the third of the Dasypaedes) is formed by the Grallatores, divided into 2 " series " - (I) Altinares, consisting of 2 " cohorts," Herodii with I family, the herons, and Pelargi with 4 families, spoonbills, ibises, storks, and the umbre (Scopus), with Balaeniceps; (2) Humilinares, also consisting of 2 " cohorts," Limicolae with 2 families, sandpipers and snipes, stilts and avocets, and Cursores with 8 families, including plovers, bustards, cranes, rails, and all the other " waders."

Among the Plovers and Snipes other similarly exceptional cases may be found.

As a group the Snipes are in several respects highly specialized.

Among the game birds are quails ("Bob White"), "partridges" (ruffed grouse), ducks, geese, woodcocks, snipes and plovers.

Tim Worstall stopped responding to comments on his anti-UN snipes once the posts had fallen off his blog's front page.

James killed snipes for breakfast.

Tim Worstall stopped responding to comments on his anti-UN snipes once the posts had fallen off his blog 's front page.

In 1993, Bullock gained media and fan attention with her role in the movie Demolition Man, which starred Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone.

We may mention the sensitiveness of the bill, which, though to some extent noticeable in many Sandpipers (q.v.), is in Snipes carried to an extreme by a number of filaments, belonging to the fifth pair of nerves, which run almost to the tip and open immediately under the soft cuticle in a series of cells that give this portion of the surface of the premaxillaries, when exposed, a honeycomb-like appearance.

So far as is known the sternum of all the Snipes, except the Jack-Snipe, departs from the normal Limicoline formation, a fact which tends to justify the removal of that species to a separate genus, Limnocryptes.

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