"shoot from a hidden place," 1773 (among British soldiers in India), in reference to hunting snipe as game, from snipe (n.). Figurative use from 1892. Related: Sniped; sniping.
snipe (n.)
long-billed marsh bird, early 14c., from Old Norse -snipa in myrisnipa "moor snipe;" perhaps a common Germanic term (compare Old Saxon sneppa, Middle Dutch snippe, Dutch snip, Old High German snepfa, German Schnepfe "snipe," Swedish sn?ppa "sandpiper"), perhaps originally "snipper." The Old English name was snite, which is of uncertain derivation. An opprobrious term (see guttersnipe) since c. 1600.
例文
1. There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe .
「サドルバード」戦闘機のコックピットスペースはあまり広くありません。
2.Gunmen continued to snipe at people leaving their homes to find food.
射手は食べ物を探しに出かけた人を絶えず待ち伏せした。
3.He was ordered to snipe at anyone moving about the camp.
キャンプ場の近くを歩いている人を狙撃するよう命じられた。
4.I started some half-dozen snipe .
シギ5,6匹に驚きました。
5.Would not the first of them who saw me wring my neck like a snipe 's？