verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously. slang

   "[…]I am looking forward to revising this chapter when better tooling becomes available (or I get nerd-sniped into writing it)."

Example

More examples

"I can send you a picture of a fruit-garden that is guaranteed to nerd-snipe you."

Etymology

From nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.

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