"Hey, why didn't you respond to my text?"
"Sorry, I got phone sniped by Mrs. Jones in English, and had to put my cell on her desk."
"Sorry, I got phone sniped by Mrs. Jones in English, and had to put my cell on her desk."
by fratts26 April 16, 2015

The practice of stopping and starting your gps watch in order to make your runs appear faster on Strava or other run tracking websites.
Daniel’s runs looked amazing on strava. The total elapsed time and the run duration did not match . He’d been stopping his watch to rest and recover . He’d been sniping He’s a sniper
by RunPolice March 29, 2020

A term used when an AI in a video game barrels through towards the player knowing it's their winning condition of the game, completely ignoring opposing AI characters that are right in front of them.
by NetJetMichael February 10, 2024

People or isps that repeatedly break into the internet speed system and hijack 99% of the download speed bandwidth while managing to stay hidden which results in a request to the owner of the internet connection to reach out to the relevent isp to get the connection reset so that the speeds go back to the normal advertised speed, in my case 50 mbps down load and 50 mbps upload.
some bandwidth snipes got into my internet traffic and somehow reduced or hijacked all the bandwidth speed again, this is the third or fourth time this year that its happened. Could just be a server or network congestion issue but I doubt it!
by Patrick01 September 27, 2025

To choose someone out of a large group of people, when the person is doing somthing unnoticeable, suck as chewing a piece of gum or whispering to someone.
by STL "CQ" December 14, 2008

A common phrase in the early twentieth century meaning someone who is all over the place whether literally traveling or whose mind is scattered. (See P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy L. Sayers works.) The saying comes from the bird of the same name which is a wading bird with a drumming display flight. The phrase “like a snipe” evolved over the next 100 years to mean any number of things that are sneaky i.e. long-range sharp shooters and/or girls on the make, or anyone who takes advantage of others in a either a mean or sneaky way.
Example: “You were dodging all over the States like a snipe and we couldn’t get at you.”—Bertie Wooster.
by Voyajer 17 July 20, 2021

A term from the shipbucket community, used for when someone completes a ship your working on before you do.
Sammy:Only a few more hours and my mega super Kaiser-Wilhelm battleship will be complete
Pacmatic: Unfortunately I've completed it. It looks like I've done a bit of ship sniping.
Pacmatic: Unfortunately I've completed it. It looks like I've done a bit of ship sniping.
by TorpidH March 2, 2022
