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snipes

  • plural
    of snipe.
    snipe
    noun
    Also snite any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (sometimesCapella ) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago common snipe, orwhole snipe, of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
  • present tense form
    of snipe (3rd person singular).
    snipe
    noun
    Also snite any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (sometimesCapella ) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago common snipe, orwhole snipe, of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.

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This has continued well into the Musk era of X-née-Twitter, with the liberal Oates occasionally directing her snipes and barbs at the platform’s white nationalist owner.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

She even recycled one of her prepared snipes, telling Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

Debutant GB Sevens player Jade Shekells brought a physical presence off the bench to bounce off multiple Italian defenders, while replacement scrum-half Flo Robinson, through various snipes, also looked bright on her first cap.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

“All is fair where you wear the crown,” snipes Gal Gadot’s evil queen, who wears slinky ballgowns made of obsidian shards that clatter and clank with every step.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

The raven, screech-owl, heron, cormorant, and so on to geese, gulls, mallards, teal, ducks, snipes, and many others.

From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon