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| sniping | |
| 1. n. A shooting from a concealed place. |  |
| snipe | |
| 1. n. 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. n. A fool; a blockhead. | |
| 3. n. A shot fired from a concealed place. | |
| 4. n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship. | |
| 5. n. (ice hockey slang) A goal. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle. | |
| 9. v. To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment. | |
| 10. v. To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding. | |
| 11. v. (ice hockey slang) To score a goal. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A cigarette butt. | |
| 13. n. An animated promotional logo during a television show. | |
| 14. n. 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. | |
| 15. n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo. | |
| 16. n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks. | |
