nerd-snipe

English

Alternative forms

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)

  1. (slang) To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
    • 2022, Luca Palmieri, Zero to Production In Rust: An introduction to backend development in Rust, →ISBN, page 330:
      […] I am looking forward to revising this chapter when better tooling becomes available (or I get nerd-sniped into writing it).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nerd-snipe.
  • nerd-sniper

References
  1. Randall Munroe (2007 December 12) “Nerd Sniping”, in xkcd
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