snipe

Noun

• a gunshot from a concealed location

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

Verb

• attack in speech or writing
  • The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker
    

• aim and shoot with great precision

• hunt or shoot snipe

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  attack , round , assail , lash out , assault , sharpshoot