nerd-snipe
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.[1]
Verb
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.
Related terms
- nerd-sniper
References
- Randall Munroe (2007 December 12) “Nerd Sniping”, in xkcd
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