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snipe
- IPA[snīp]
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- a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.
- shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range;make a sly or petty verbal attack
verb: snipe, 3rd person present: snipes, gerund or present participle: sniping, past tense: sniped, past participle: sniped
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名詞
- 1. a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.
動詞
- 1. shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range the soldiers in the trench sniped at us
- 2. make a sly or petty verbal attack he constantly sniped at his former colleague
- 3. (in an online auction) place a bid judged to be high enough to win an item just before the bidding is scheduled to close I regularly snipe 10 to 5 seconds before the end of eBay auctions
- ▪ outbid (another bidder in an online auction) just before the bidding is scheduled to close what is the point of sitting around for a seven-day auction when half the time you get sniped at the last second
- an act of hunting wild snipe: a dog is helpful on a snipe hunt, especially for retrieving
Oxford Dictionary
- an act of hunting wild snipe: a dog is helpful on a snipe hunt, especially for retrieving
Oxford American Dictionary
- a small dark Eurasian snipe.
Oxford Dictionary
- a slender marine eel with a long, thin beaklike snout, typically occurring in deep water.
Oxford American Dictionary
- a South American bird resembling a small partridge, with mainly brown plumage.
Oxford Dictionary
- (in white usage) the practice of hunting and killing Aboriginal people with guns: women and children were completely unprotected from settlers who chose to go out and do a bit of snipe shooting
Oxford Dictionary
- a slender marine eel with a long, thin beaklike snout, typically occurring in deep water.
Oxford Dictionary
- a small long-billed wading bird that has brown plumage with colorful markings.
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[snʌɪp]
英式
- a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, ...
- shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range: the soldiers in the trench sniped at us
Oxford Dictionary