Thesaurus: snipe
Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
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- n. Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- n. A fool; a blockhead.
- n. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
- n. a gunshot from a concealed location
- v. hunt or shoot snipe
- v. aim and shoot with great precision
- v. attack in speech or writing
- Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of thefamily Scolopacidæ, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- n:24/v:76 n. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks n. a gunshot from a concealed location v. hunt or shoot snipe