English-Dutch translations for sniper

• scherpschutter
  Tanks en scherpschutters richten elke dag een bloedbad aan. People massacred by tanks and by snipers every day.
  Volgens de geruchten zou het bij de scherpschutters die in Bisjkek op de mensenmenigte schoten om Oezbeekse en Tadzjiekse huurlingen gaan. Rumour has it that the snipers who shot into the crowd in Bishkek were Uzbek and Tajik mercenaries.
• sluipschutter

Definition of sniper

• A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position
• Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position
• One who criticizes
• A player who specializes in scoring goals
• A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond

Examples

• Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation.

Related words

• snipe
• Painted-snipes
• Seedsnipes
• guttersnipe
• jacksnipe
• snipefish
• photosniper
• snipe hunt
• Snipe's Bill