| snipe | a gunshot from a concealed location |
| snipe hunt | an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it, in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage |
American woodcock
woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
| snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family, of marshy areas, similar to the woodcocks |
whole snipe
Gallinago gallinago | common snipe of Eurasia and Africa |
Wilson's snipe
Gallinago gallinago delicata | American snipe |
great snipe
woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
jacksnipe half snipe
Limnocryptes minima | a small short-billed Old World snipe |
red-breasted snipe
Limnodromus scolopaceus | a dowitcher with a red breast |
gutter
trough | a channel along the eaves or on the roof, collects and carries away rainwater |
| gutter | a tool for gutting fish |
| gutter press | press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures) |
| gutter | a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) |
street urchin
guttersnipe | a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas |
street arab
gamin
throwaway | (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets |
gutter
sewer
toilet | misfortune resulting in lost effort or money, his career was in the gutter, all that work went down the sewer, pensions are in the toilet |
attack
round b assail
lash out b snipe b assault | attack in speech or writing, The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker |
sharpshoot
snipe | aim and shoot with great precision |
| snipe | hunt or shoot snipe |
| gutter | provide with gutters, gutter the buildings |
| gutter | wear or cut gutters into, The heavy rain guttered the soil |
| gutter | flow in small streams, Tears guttered down her face |
| gutter | burn unsteadily, feebly, or low, flicker, The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground |