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nerd-snipes

nerd-snipes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-snipes

What is nerd-snipes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nerd-snipes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nerd-snipe.

Words near nerd-snipes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerd-snipes (page history and authors); nerd-snipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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