snipe : Idioms & Phrases

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Grass snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata) called also jacksnipe in America.
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Gray snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
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great snipe

  • noun Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe
    Gallinago media; great snipe.
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Gutter snipe

  • a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. Slang
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Half snipe

  • noun a small short-billed Old World snipe
    Limnocryptes minima; jacksnipe.
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  • the dunlin; the jacksnipe.
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Jack snipe

  • . (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.
  • . See Jacksnipe.
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Meadow snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the common or jack snipe.
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Pool snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the European redshank. Prov. Eng.
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Prairie pigeon, plover, ∨ snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2.
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Quail snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the dowitcher, or red-breasted snipe; called also robin snipe, and brown snipe.
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red-breasted snipe

  • noun a dowitcher with a red breast
    Limnodromus scolopaceus.
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Robin snipe

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher . (b) The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot.
  • the knot.
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Rock snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima); called also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe.
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Sand snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the sandpiper.
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Sea snipe

  • . See in the Vocabulary.
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Shore snipe

  • any sandpiper.
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Snipe hawk

  • the marsh harrier. Prov. Eng.
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snipe hunt

  • noun an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it
    • in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage
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Solitary snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the great snipe. Prov. Eng.
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Squat snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the jacksnipe; called also squatter. Local, U.S.
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Stone snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. Local, U.S.
  • the tattler.
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Summer snipe

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The common European sandpiper. (c) The green sandpiper.
  • the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers.
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Whistling snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the American woodcock.
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Whole snipe

  • noun common snipe of Eurasia and Africa
    Gallinago gallinago.
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  • (Zoöl.), the common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. Prov. Eng.
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wilson's snipe

  • noun American snipe
    Gallinago gallinago delicata.
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Winter snipe

  • (Zoöl.), the dunlin.
  • . See Rock snipe, under Rock.
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Wood snipe

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe (Gallinago nemoricola).
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Woodcock snipe

  • noun Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe
    Gallinago media; great snipe.
  • noun small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
    Philohela minor; American woodcock.
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  • the great snipe.
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