snipes

Noun

• Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
• a gunshot from a concealed location
• plural of snipe
• Obsolete form of snips (“shears, scissors”)

Verb

• hunt or shoot snipe
• aim and shoot with great precision
• attack in speech or writing
• sever or remove by pinching or snipping
• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
• third-person singular simple present indicative of snipe

Examples

• a pair of snipes

Synonyms

assail, assault, attack, clip, crop, cut back, dress, lash out, lop, nip, nip off, prune, round, sharpshoot, snip, snip off, snipe, trim