snipe hunt

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   an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it

   “in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage”

   Broaderpractical joke

Questions about snipe hunt

What does snipe hunt mean?

snipe hunt means "an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it".

Is snipe hunt a common word?

snipe hunt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.