Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

A fool; a blockhead.

A shot fired from a concealed place.

To hunt snipe.

To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

(by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.