0 past simple and past participle of snipe --
1 to shoot at someone from a position where you cannot be seen: --
For the next two to four hours the two sides sniped at each other.
My constituency has, in its main town, four secondary schools, three of which are grant-maintained and successful, but all sniped at by the leadership of the local county council.
Human nature is such that if you are constantly sniped at and criticised from outside, you tend to harden the view you are holding rather than to give way.
I am generally faced with the serried ranks opposite, but it is a comparatively new experience to find myself being sniped at from behind as well.
The camp was sniped during the night.
His role should be applauded and not continually sniped at.
It is to draw the military on to the street to protect property, so that they can then be sniped at.
I do not imagine that, in military or political terms, it is much fun being sniped at from behind.
