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Cousin Of The Snipe Crossword Clue

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noun

• long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

34%9Snipe's cousin
noun

• any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

34%5 Sandpiper's cousin
noun

• Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

• a gunshot from a concealed location

verb

• hunt or shoot snipe

• aim and shoot with great precision

• attack in speech or writing

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New York Times27 Mar 1996 Down 48
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