(n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.
(n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn.
(n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.
(v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.
(v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly.
(n. & v. t.) See Sneck.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1965 he was one of the founders and the first national chairman of “Snick”, the famous Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, which supported Martin Luther King Jr.
(2) Clinical signs were minimal, but occasionally birds were ruffled, exhibited open-mouthed breathing, and developed "snicks."
(3) Snicking occurred in 100% of the birds and mortality reached 50%.
Snuck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We snuck in quietly during the night in civilian cars.
(2) Rui Faria and Silvino Louro, two of his coaches and closest allies, snuck in to the back of the auditorium to cast their eye over proceedings.
(3) Johnny Depp's dogs on death row after being 'snuck' into Australia Read more But it seems Pistol and Boo may not have had the proper paperwork when they were departing their home state of California, which could pose difficulties when they try to go back.
(4) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
(5) (Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four snuck in second, with Joyce's Ulysses third.)
(6) Osvaldo Alonso made it two nil as he snuck one off the inside of the far post in the 47th minute and even though Reinaldo Navia pulled on back in the 52nd minute for Atlanta, the Sounders would not be denied their win and Alex Caskey got the two goal lead back two minutes later, followed by two more from Sammy Ochoa.
(7) Down 21-17 with 16 seconds left in the game, Lombardi told Starr to "run it and let's get the hell out of here," after which the quarterback snuck into the endzone and rewarded Packers fans for suffering the cold.
(8) Last year, student Ibrahim Abd, who did not want to give his real name, snuck into Syria to help media activists there, without telling his family.
(9) Oliver was filming Daily Show reports at the 2008 Republican national convention in Minnesota – the event at which Sarah Palin made her national debut – and had snuck in, with his camera crew, to a VIP area in which he didn't have permission to be.
(10) FFA grant Wellington Phoenix 10-year A-League licence extension Read more Played through by midfielder Stefan Mauk, Kamau steadied and snuck a shot past Danny Vukovic at the keeper’s near post, with a healthy deflection off Scott Galloway’s leg.
(11) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(12) Wenger was still remonstrating with a touchline official about some perceived wrong from several minutes earlier when United hit them with a third knockout blow, Nani leaving Lehmann for dead with a left-foot shot that snuck under him and into the far right corner.
(13) They could, of course, thrash Arsenal by double figures and see West Brom suffer a similar hammering at home to Stoke, whose impressive season has rather snuck under a lot of people's radars.
(14) Snuck in as an anagram or across the first letter of each word in a sentence?
(15) The last time the Observer snuck under the nation’s duvet and asked a representative sample of consenting adults those $64,000 questions – How many partners?
(16) Just now he snuck into the box undetected and was picked out by a good ball from the right-back.
(17) Having missed two good chances with his head, Clint Dempsey switched to using his feet and doubled Fulham's lead with his right, getting the final touch to a shot from Duff that, having picked up a deflection from Pascal Chimbonda, may have snuck past Robinson on its own.
(18) It’s still under investigation – we’re still asking those questions.” The broadcaster said he understood the two dogs were deliberately snuck into the country in a minder’s handbag, with the full knowledge of Depp and his wife Amber Heard.
(19) On Sunday, Sky News's live coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant snuck into the bottom end of the top 20 most watched free-to-air multichannel shows, averaging 493,000 and a 3.9% share in the half hour from 1pm, and 479,000 and 4.3% in the preceeding half hour.
(20) The assault follows firefights in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state that killed eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen who in February snuck in by boat and claimed the land as part of a sultanate under a Filipino clan leader.