English Dictionary

snipe

/snaɪp/

verb

(intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks. / (transitive) To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.

He likes to snipe at his coworkers behind their backs.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

意味（2）

(transitive) To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.

Campus newspaper advertising rates are inexpensive, flyers can be simple because the ticket-price message is strong, and regular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them.