Snipe

A discarded cigarette butt—often scavenged, smoked down to the filter, and left behind as a trace of survival. In street logic, a snipe isn’t trash—it’s currency, ritual, or desperation.

“He found a snipe on the curb, lit it with a matchbook from 2007, and kept walking.”

by Wordwrecker September 2, 2025

Snipe life

Living the high life, being rich, being a baller a la Wesley Snipes circa mid 1990s. This includes dressing in the proper 90s apparel and maintaing an unnecessarily high level of confidence and swagger pertaining to even the most basic things.

Doyle: Don't you have your performance review at work today?
Al: Fuck that job, I'm living the snipe life now!

by nuuuthin April 5, 2014

Snipe Hunt

A snipe hunt is a practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task.
The snipe is a real bird. It is not fictional nor extinct as many definitions claim. The common snipe is prevalent in Europe and Northern Asia. The Wilson snipe is prevalent in North America and is considered by some a separate species instead of an offshoot of the common snipe.

The snipe is responsible for the term "sniper" derived from marksman in England that had enough skill to stalk and kill the fast moving bird. The snipe is very fast and flies in an erratic pattern, making it an almost impossible target for novice hunters.

Since you have never been on a hunt, we should take you snipe hunting.

by Dad_a_Monk August 10, 2016

Snipe with a Shotgun

To attempt to do something where success is extremely unlikely or impossible. Sniping is hard, and using a shotgun makes the job almost impossible. Use it when describing a situation that is the same as pissing into the wind

Guy 1: Hey, check out that girl over there. Think I can get her?
Guy 2: No offense but you might as well try to Snipe with a Shotgun.

by Royce McMillan May 26, 2010

snipe hunt

A North-American prank and rite of passage wherein older adolescents take younger boys into the wilderness for the supposed purpose of “snipe hunting.” Snipes are an imaginary game bird purported to resemble quails or pheasants or what have you (the fictional snipe is not to be confused with the extant North American shorebird of that same name). Snipe hunts take place on moonless nights; the victims are provided burlap bags with which to catch the birds, while the conspirators spot them with flashlights. The conspirators make birdcalls, through rocks in the bushes, and urgently cry out “snipe” to make the victims believe that there are actually birds in the area. The victims don’t want to be the only one who can’t see the imaginary birds, so they claim to have seen them also. Pretty soon the victims have convinced each other they are surrounded by snipes and proceed to run about foolishly in search of the non-existent birds. “Dude right there didn’t you see it?” The conspirators will often agree that they have just seen a snipe in that cactus patch or lake or thorny bush and order then the victims to dive in and catch it with his respective sack. The victims are then often abandoned by their guides, thus completing the joke. The cycle repeats when this year’s dupes become privy to the joke and then take their younger brothers out the following year, in search of the ever-illusive snipe.

"You've never heard of snipe hunting? Dude we should go this weekend."

by sleepinggrass January 20, 2005

Snipe hunting

Taking a new friend from college back homerural. Get them all liqoured up and hand them a black trash bag.
Explaining to them what these 'birds' look like, and that they only come out in the middle of the night.

Get them to stand in the middle of a field or woods.
Explain to them that you will 'scare' the 'birds' towards them, and for them to be prepared to catch.

And leave them out in the woods for a good hour or so, Then go scare the crap out of them.

So who wants to go snipe hunting?

by DAE85 September 19, 2005

Snipe check

The act of a first shot miss in battle or on a FPS game
or
The act of missing to attract the attention of a player or target to get them to move to a better fireing position.

Gamer 1 "Oh man I snipe checked that tank and got owned!"
Gamer 2 "STFU n00b"
Gamer 3 *Has other sniper and head shots gamer 1 and 2*

by Andrew116 November 9, 2008