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nerd-sniped

nerd-sniped is the simple past and past participle of nerd-snipe.

Meaning of nerd-snipe

Verb

nerd-snipe (third-person singular simple present nerd-snipes, present participle nerd-sniping, simple past and past participle nerd-sniped)

  1. (slang) To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
    • […]I am looking forward to revising this chapter when better tooling becomes available (or I get nerd-sniped into writing it).2022, Luca Palmieri, Zero to Production In Rust: An introduction to backend development in Rust, →ISBN, page 330

Questions about nerd-sniped

What is nerd-sniped the simple past and past participle of?
Nerd-sniped is the simple past and past participle of nerd-snipe.

Words near nerd-sniped in the dictionary

  1. nerd snipe
  2. nerd sniped
  3. nerd snipes
  4. nerd sniping
  5. nerd-snipe
  6. nerd-sniped
  7. nerd-snipes
  8. nerd-sniping
  9. nerdboy
  10. nerdboys
  11. nerdbrain

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