Meaning

• Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

• A fool; a blockhead.

• A shot fired from a concealed place.

• (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.

• (ice hockey slang) A goal.

Meaning

• To hunt snipe.

• To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

• (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.

• To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.

• To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.

• (ice hockey slang) To score a goal.

• To move the ball quickly in a different direction.