Snipe (disambiguation)

A snipe is a wading bird.

Snipe may also refer to:

• Snipe (naval slang), a member of the engineering staff on a U.S. Navy vessel, specifically those who work the boilers, most famously referenced in the anonymous poem "The Snipe's Lament."
• Snipe (theatrical), a short announcement trailer on behalf of the theater
• Snipe (wood machining), an unwanted deeper cut at the end of a board
• Snipe (dinghy), class of racing sailboat
• Sopwith Snipe, a World War I biplane fighter
• Humber Super Snipe, an automobile
• Auction sniping, a strategy of placing a winning bid at the last possible moment
• Snipe incident, a 1958 military incident between Chile and Argentina
• Guttersnipe or snipe, a person of low character
• The Snipe, one of the Titans in Crash of the Titans, an action-adventure game published by Sierra Entertainment
• Snipes (video game), a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet software
• Snipe, a length of pipe used as a lever extension on a wrench or chain binder
• Snipe, the unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar, often collected by homeless for future smoking
• Snipe, the act of shooting someone a large distance away.
• "Snipe" (Kotoko song), a 2009 J-pop song

People

• Snipe (rapper), American rapper from New Orleans
• Snipe Conley (1894–1978), Baseball pitcher
• Snipe Hansen (1907–1978), Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Browns

Places

• Snipe, Texas
• Outpost Snipe, a World War II location in the Second Battle of El Alamein

See also

• Snipes (disambiguation)
• Snipe hunt, a class of practical jokes
• Snipe Fly, insects in the order Diptera, genus Rhagionidae
• Sniper
• Snopes trilogy