nerd-snipe
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.[1]
Verb[edit]
nerd-snipe (third-person singular simple present nerd-snipes, present participle nerd-sniping, simple past and past participle nerd-sniped)
- (slang) To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nerd-snipe.
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References[edit]
- ^ Randall Munroe (2007 December 12) “Nerd Sniping”, in xkcd