SNIPE

noun

1. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
2. A fool; a blockhead.
3. A shot fired from a concealed place.

verb

1. To hunt snipe.
2. To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
3. (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.