nerd-snipe en · VERB
Etymology
From nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.
Meanings
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(slang) To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
[…]I am looking forward to revising this chapter when better tooling becomes available (or I get nerd-sniped into writing it).
2022, Luca Palmieri, Zero to Production In Rust: An introduction to backend development in Rust, →ISBN, page 330:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nerd snipe | alternative | lexicographic | |
| nerdsnipe | alternative | lexicographic | |
| nerd-sniping | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nerd-sniped | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nerd-sniped | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| nerd-snipes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |