Snipename

• 1

  A surname.

snipenoun詞源 1/snaɪp/

• 1

  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

  A fool; a blockhead.

  • For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If I would time expend with such a snipe,/ But for my sport and profit.
• 3

  A shot fired from a concealed place.

• 4

  slanggovernmentmilitarynavalA member of the engineering department on a ship.

• 5

  slanghobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA goal.

snipeverb詞源 1/snaɪp/

• 1

  To hunt snipe.

  • The pleasures of Bay bird shooting should not be spoken of in the same sentence with cocking or sniping.
• 2

  To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

• 3

  To shoot with a sniper rifle.

• 4

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

  • I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa.
  • Tip: Adding a few cents to your maximum bid is particularly effective when you're sniping. (..) Last-second bidding is called sniping, and 15 percent of all eBay auctions are won within the last minute.
• 5

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

• 6

  slanghobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo score a goal.

• 7

  To move the ball quickly in a different direction.

  • The breakthrough duly arrived after 35 minutes, an absolute beauty of a team goal scored by Lozano. First Khedira was robbed deep in the Mexico half. Hernández sniped away from Jérôme Boateng and Mats Hummels. A flurry of skimmed passes across the wide-open spaces of the Germany defence left Lozano in space in the area. With the stadium howling for him to shoot he cut inside Özil, who had tracked back to right-back, and buried the ball past Neuer.

snipenoun詞源 2/snaɪp/

• 1

  slangA cigarette butt.

• 2

  An end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away.

• 3

  An animated promotional logo during a television show.

• 4

  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.

• 5

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

snipenoun詞源 3/snaɪp/

• 1

  A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.

• 2

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

  • [R]egular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them. […] The student snipe should say something like, "FOR STUDENTS ONLY: 5 EVENTS FOR AS LITTLE AS $20.00!"

snipeverb詞源 3/snaɪp/

• 1

  To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

  • Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
  • After the president held a White House event announcing a shared venture, with up to $500 billion of funding[…] Elon Musk sniped on X that the money for the venture wasn’t really there.
• 2

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

  • Campus newspaper advertising rates are inexpensive, flyers can be simple because the ticket-price message is strong, and regular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them.
  • At the time, a poster cost more to snipe than to print. The company quoted us $1.50 per poster, and made such a point of guaranteeing coverage, I decided to covertly follow one of their crews around one night to see for myself.