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Snopesed

Snopesed (verb), Snopsing (noun) refers to the act of questioning the origin of an email forwarded to one's inbox. There are certain red flags leading to the recipient initiating a Snopsing. Some are the words "Send this to everyone you know!" the attribution of clever statements or shibboleths to well known people or celebrities, often Kurt Vonnegut or George Carlin and dire warnings and predictions to cause alarm and fear in soft-hearted or gullible folk. The recipient then plugs keywords from the forward into www.snopes.com to reveal basic fallacies and/or half-truths inherent in the message.
My husband forwarded me "George Carlin's Rules for 2007," but I Snopesed it and found out it wasn't from 2006 and it was really coined by Bill Mahler.

My cousin sent me an email suggesting I visit a particular website where every hit will supposedly cause Bill Gates to contribute a dollar to the the Society for Six-toed Sephardic Semites or some other worthy cause, but a Snopsing revealed it to be totally false.
by Marthakay January 5, 2009
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Snoped

The act of validating an likely hoax email on snopes.com and notifying the sender whether it is true or false.
I sent Jim from accounting a note saying "Congratulations, you've been snoped!" regarding his latest conspiracy email.
by B2CCatcher March 26, 2012
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snopespeak

language employed by snope "fact checkers'' that obfuscate their inabilty to spin a topic that doesn't fit their narrative.
Pepe le Pew being cancelled because of a NYT oped is "unproven" is a classic example of snopespeak.
by Mr. History March 10, 2021
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snoped-out

It means someone has gone to snopes.com and confirmed or denied its hoaxiness
Has anyone snoped-out whether FB is going to chrage $50 to use their social network?
by ChefKadieHicks April 30, 2010
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Snopesing

When one debunks an oft-shared myth on a social networking website by posting a link to the Snopes article on that particular myth, showing that it isn't true.
Person 1: Hey everyone guess what? Obama did this and this and this and this...
Person 2: Nope, it's a myth, as is stated on this Snopes page. (link here)
Person 1: Man, are you Snopesing me?
Person 2: Yes, yes I am. Check your facts next time.
by analfactchecker December 11, 2013
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snopesicized

Snopesicized is the process of having verified an article or reference on snopes.com.
He e-mailed me an article that I thought was false so I snopesicized it on snopes.com and found that
it was in fact false.
by Joe LaMoy January 11, 2008
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snoped

When playing red dead redemption 2 and mispronounce scoped.
Yo bro wanna get snoped?
by onexX2dogsXx June 30, 2019
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