Usually means: Bird known for camouflaged plumage.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word snipe:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. snipe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snipe: Merriam-Webster
  3. snipe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snipe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snipe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snipe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snipe, snipe: Wordnik
  8. snipe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Snipe, snipe: Wiktionary
  10. snipe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snipe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snipe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snipe: Dictionary.com
  14. snipe (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snipe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snipe (My Hero Academia), Snipe (dinghy), Snipe (disambiguation), Snipe (theatrical), Snipe (wood machining), Snipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snipe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snipe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snipe: Rhymezone
  20. Snipe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snipe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. snipe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. snipe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Snipe: The Word Detective
  25. snipe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snipe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNIPE: Acronym Finder
  2. snipe: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snipe, snipe, snipe, snipe, snipe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SNIPE(R), SniPe: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. snipe: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Snipe: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See sniped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
noun:  A fool; a blockhead.
noun:  A shot fired from a concealed place.
noun:  (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
noun:  (ice hockey slang) A goal.
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
verb:  (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
verb:  (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.
verb:  (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
verb:  (ice hockey slang) To score a goal.
verb:  To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
noun:  (slang) A cigarette butt.
noun:  An end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away.
noun:  An animated promotional logo during a television show.
noun:  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.
noun:  A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.
noun:  A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
noun:  A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
verb:  (transitive) To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.
noun:  A surname.

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