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How to pronounce “snipe”
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Pronunciation guide for snipe
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of snipe with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Woman of No Importance
And she wanted to shoot snipe.
- Definition summary
- Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Example 1 of 4
How to pronounce snipe
A Woman of No Importance
And she wanted to shoot snipe.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “snipe”
Meaning
- [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.
- A fool; a blockhead.
- A shot fired from a concealed place.
- (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
- (ice hockey slang) A goal.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
- (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
- (intransitive, by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
- (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.
- (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
- (ice hockey slang) To score a goal.
- To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
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