Word | Definitions | Synonyms |
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guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
jacksnipe | (noun) American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting | Synonyms: Calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper |
(noun) a small short-billed Old World snipe | Synonyms: half snipe, Limnocryptes minima | |
snipe | (noun) a gunshot from a concealed location | - |
(noun) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | - |