nerd-snipe
English
Alternative forms
- nerd snipe, nerdsnipe
Etymology
nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.[1]
Verb
nerd-snipe (third-person singular simple present nerd-snipes, present participle nerd-sniping, simple past and past participle nerd-sniped)
- To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
Related terms
- nerd-sniper
References
- Randall Munroe (12 December 2007), “Nerd Sniping”, in xkcd
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