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nerd snipe

nerd snipe is the alternative form 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

Forms of nerd snipe

third-person singular presentnerd snipes
present participlenerd sniping
past participlenerd sniped
pastnerd sniped

Questions about nerd snipe

What is nerd snipe the alternative form of?
Nerd snipe is the alternative form of nerd-snipe.

Words near nerd snipe in the dictionary

  1. nerd pole
  2. nerd poled
  3. nerd poles
  4. nerd poling
  5. nerd revolution
  6. nerd snipe
  7. nerd sniped
  8. nerd snipes
  9. nerd sniping
  10. nerd-snipe
  11. nerd-sniped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerd snipe (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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