snipe -- (Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks)
snipe -- (a gunshot from a concealed location)
Overview of verb snipe
The verb snipe has 3 senses
snipe -- (hunt or shoot snipe)
sharpshoot, snipe -- (aim and shoot with great precision)
attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault -- (attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker")