Crossword-Solution: SNIPE 5 letters, 185 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Snipe n. Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the
family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Snipe n. A fool; a blockhead.

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Word Anagrams
SNIPE anagram ENPIS, INSEP, PENIS, PINES, SPINE

We have 185 clues for the answer “SNIPE”

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AVOCET relative 1 answer
Animal in a prank "hunt" 1 answer
Attack from a blind, say 1 answer
Attack from a concealed place 1 answer
Attack from a distance 1 answer
Attack while concealed 1 answer
Attack with a crack 1 answer
BLACK and brown mottled bird 1 answer
Be deviously critical 1 answer
Be uncharitable, in a way 1 answer
Becassine 1 answer
Bid at the last second, as on eBay 1 answer
Bird from which a military term was derived 1 answer
Bird of the marshes 1 answer
Bird related to the woodcock. 1 answer
Bird species in "Up" 1 answer
Bird with a bill much longer than its head 1 answer
Cousin of a woodcock 1 answer
Cousins of the woodcock. 1 answer
Criticize anonymously 1 answer
Criticize slyly 1 answer
Criticize slyly, with "at" 1 answer
Criticize snidely, with "at" 1 answer
Criticize, with 1 answer
Criticize, with "at" 1 answer
Curlew's cousin 1 answer
Cut verbally 1 answer
Dig (at) 1 answer
Engage in malicious criticism 1 answer
Engage in petty criticism 1 answer
FIRE shots from hiding 1 answer
Fire on from hiding 1 answer
Fools hunt it 1 answer
GO shooting 1 answer
Game bird of the marshes. 1 answer
Gossip maliciously 1 answer
Gutter bird 1 answer
Harangue while hidden 1 answer
Hide and shoot 1 answer
Long-billed game bird 1 answer
Long-billed marsh bird 1 answer
Long-billed sandpiper 1 answer
Long-billed shore bird 1 answer
Long-billed shorebird 1 answer
MAKE critical attack at (fig.) 1 answer
MAKE sly critical attack at (fig.) 1 answer
Make a last-moment eBay bid 1 answer
Make a snarky remark 1 answer
Make a snide remark (at) 1 answer
Make catty remarks from the side 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SNIPE (5)

His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Over our feet, like coveys of snipe in a bog, rose shoals of fish, of the genus monoptera, which have no other fins but their tail.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Little more than a century since it formed part of a Marsh, the name of which is still retained in the adjoining street; its principal productions being bulrushes and willows, which were haunted in certain seasons by snipe and waterfowl.
Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008
The Chelsea Waterworks Company had a sort of marshy place with canals and osier beds, now, I suppose, Ebury Street, and here it was that I was permitted to go and try my hand at snipe-shooting, a special privilege given to the son of the freeholder.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke 2012
The Honourable Wilmot Snipe, and other distinguished gentlemen crowded to render homage to the Misses Clubber; and Sir Thomas Clubber stood bolt upright, and looked majestically over his black kerchief at the assembled company.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 2009

Quotes with SNIPE (1)

The pain he feels in his own gut is either something to do with the caffeine, or the stress of realizing that if it's not snipers or blindness stealing your children, it's cancer coming to snipe your wife, and there's not a fucking thing a guy can do about any of it except to drop to his knees and pray, to pretend like someone or something that gives a shit is on teh other end of the line, to pretend anything, like you did when you were a kid until the pretending seems real, …
Scott Wrobel
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 295 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).