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| NOUN | 1 | snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family |
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| 2 | snipe | A gunshot from a concealed location | |
| VERB | 1 | snipe | Hunt or shoot snipe |
| 2 | snipe, sharpshoot | Aim and shoot with great precision | |
| 3 | snipe, attack, round, assail, lash out, assault | Attack in speech or writing |
| Sounds | snay'p |
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| Rhymes | archetype, bagpipe, genotype, and 19 more rhymes in ayp... |
| Meaning | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family. Of marshy areas. Similar to the woodcocks. |
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| Member of | wisp |
| Broader | shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird |
| Narrower | whole snipe, Gallinago gallinago; Wilson's snipe, Gallinago gallinago delicata; great snipe, woodcock snipe, Gallinago media; jacksnipe, half snipe, Limnocryptes minima; dowitcher |
| Verbs | snipe |
| Meaning | A gunshot from a concealed location. |
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| Broader | gunfire, gunshot |
| Verbs | snipe |
| Meaning | Hunt or shoot snipe. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and snipe |
| Broader | hunt, run, hunt down, track down |
| Nouns | snipe |
| Meaning | Aim and shoot with great precision. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | sharpshoot |
| Broader | shoot |
| Nouns | snipe; sniper |
| Meaning | Attack in speech or writing. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | attack, round, assail, lash out, assault |
| Broader | knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart |
| Narrower | abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout; claw; vitriol; rip; whang; bombard, barrage; blister, scald, whip; rubbish |
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