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stream snipe

stream snipe verb: to watch another person play a multiplayer game on a live stream, especially to use the knowledge gained from watching the broadcast to gain an unfair in-game advantage over the streamer or to disrupt the streamer's gameplay, or just to time when they queue up in order to join the same game.

Verb

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

  1. (Internet) To watch another person play a multiplayer game on a live stream, especially to use the knowledge gained from watching the broadcast to gain an unfair in-game advantage over the streamer or to disrupt the streamer's gameplay, or just to time when they queue up in order to join the same game.
    • It is typically frowned upon to stream snipe another person.
    • Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.
  2. (Internet, broadly) To identify the location of and intrude the broadcast of an IRL live streamer.

Forms of stream snipe

third-person singular presentstream snipes
present participlestream sniping
past participlestream sniped
paststream sniped
alternative formstreamsnipe

Words formed from stream snipe

Questions about stream snipe

What does stream snipe mean?
Stream snipe means to watch another person play a multiplayer game on a live stream, especially to use the knowledge gained from watching the broadcast to gain an unfair in-game advantage over the streamer or to disrupt the streamer's gameplay, or just to time when they queue up in order to join the same game.
What part of speech is stream snipe?
Stream snipe is a verb.
What is the past tense of stream snipe?
The past tense of stream snipe is stream sniped.

Words near stream snipe in the dictionary

  1. stream of consciousness
  2. stream orchid
  3. stream pool
  4. stream pools
  5. stream processing
  6. stream snipe
  7. stream sniped
  8. stream sniper
  9. stream snipers
  10. stream snipes
  11. stream sniping

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