Meaning Of The Word Snipe

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What's The Definition Of Snipe?

snipe
verb: If someone snipes at you, they criticize you.

snipe in American English
any of various shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) with a long, slender, flexible bill used in probing for food, esp. a genus (Gallinago) living chiefly in marshy places
to hunt or shoot snipe

snipe in American Englishesp collectively for 1, 2
intransitive verb: to shoot or hunt snipe
noun: any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe or whole snipe), of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage

snipe in British English
noun: any of various birds of the genus Gallinago (or Capella) and related genera, such as G. gallinago (common or Wilson's snipe), of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes

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