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stream snipe

verb stream snipes · stream sniping · stream sniped · streamsnipe

  1. Internet To watch another person play a multiplayer game on a live stream, especially to use the knowledge gained from watching the broadcast to gain an unfair in-game advantage over the streamer or to disrupt the streamer's gameplay, or just to time when they queue up in order to join the same game. It is typically frowned upon to stream snipe another person.
  2. Internet, broadly To identify the location of and intrude the broadcast of an IRL live streamer.

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@misc{stream_snipe_2026,
  title = {stream snipe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stream%20snipe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}