nerd-snipe

== English == === Alternative forms === nerd snipe, nerdsnipe === Etymology === From nerd +‎ snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd. === Verb === nerd-snipe (third-person singular simple present nerd-snipes, present participle nerd-sniping, simple past and past participle nerd-sniped) (slang) To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nerd-snipe. ==== Related terms ==== nerd-sniper === References ===