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snipe
noun- the butt of a marijuana cigarette US, 1969
In the late C19, a “snipe” referred to the discarded stub of a cigar or cigarette. It briefly enjoyed standing in the vocabulary of marijuana users before falling victim to ROACH- — Walter L. Way, The Drug Scene, 1977
- the butt of a cigarette that can still be relit and smoked US, 1891
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 17, 1945
- He had snatched snipes, on the fly, of the cigarettes that clears the mind for the making of swift decisions in sudden crises with the fire still alive in the tobacco. — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 17, 1949
- Then the man whose pant-knees and hands were muddy where he had fallen, saw a cigarette snipe on the curb. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 76, 1958
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 65, 1992
- the nose UK
From the long straight bill of the bird. - [R]egal my snipe is, people have said–it’s stood up to a lot of punishment without so much as a kink in it, my snipe has. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 227, 2002
- a sniper’s hide UK: NORTHERN IRELAND
- A snipe, as the Provos [Provisional IRA] euphemistically called their murderous ambushes[.] — Christopher Hawke, For Campaign Service, 1979
- on board a ship, a crew member, especially an engineering officer UK, 1918
- After OCS I was assigned to a small destroyer, the Joseph K. Taussig, as a snipe, or engineering officer, whose domain was the fireroom, where the ship’s boilers are located. — Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, Rogue Warrior, p. 60, 1992
- a railway track worker US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 268, 1946
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 142, 1977
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