snipe englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

(plural: snipes or snipe) Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
(slang) A cigarette butt.
A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
A fool; a blockhead.
An animated promotional logo during a television show.
A shot fired from a concealed place.
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.
(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.

(intransitive) To hunt snipe.
(intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
(intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
(intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
(intransitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.

For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If I would time expend with such a snipe,/ But for my sport and profit.
The pleasures of Bay bird shooting should not be spoken of in the same sentence with cocking or sniping.
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.”

Partisiipin perfekti	sniped
Imperfekti	sniped
Partisiipin preesens	sniping
Monikko	snipes
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	snipes

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