snipe

1. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.Examples: "The pleasures of Bay bird shooting should not be spoken of in the same sentence with cocking or sniping."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.intransitive

3. (intransitive, by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.broadlyintransitive

4. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.Examples: "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."; "Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Snipers do this to avoid bidding wars that escalate the bids to more than they want to pay."transitive

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

6. (ice hockey slang) To score a goal.slang

1. (slang) A cigarette butt.slang

1. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.Examples: "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."Synonyms: snarkintransitive

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