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nerdsnipe

nerdsnipe is the alternative spelling 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 nerdsnipe

third-person singular presentnerdsnipes
present participlenerdsniping
past participlenerdsniped
pastnerdsniped

Questions about nerdsnipe

What is nerdsnipe the alternative spelling of?
Nerdsnipe is the alternative spelling of nerd-snipe.

Words near nerdsnipe in the dictionary

  1. nerdom
  2. nerdos
  3. nerds
  4. nerds out
  5. nerdship
  6. nerdsnipe
  7. nerdsniped
  8. nerdsnipes
  9. nerdsniping
  10. nerdsome
  11. nerdspeak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerdsnipe (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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