snopes

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verb

To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.

UncommonScrabble 8

Meanings

snopes1

verbsnopes (third-person singular simple present snopeses, present participle snopesing, simple past and past participle snopesed)

present singular third person snopeses · participle present snopesing · participle past snopesed · past snopesed · alternative Snopes

  1. raretransitiveTo check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.

    Heh heh you got me. No, I didn't Snopes it before replying. Damn. Shame on me.

    2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022
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    Why do people insist on "re-SNOPESing" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?

    2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022

    I remember the same doubt, and it's understandable that people would be skeptical about an amazing story like that. I had some spare time, hence the Googling and Snopesing.

    2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022

    Now some of these are bogus, or semi-bogus... Check 'em out if you need to (I'm not gonna do your snopesing for you :-) - but why spoil a good story with some factuality? If some of these aren't true, they ought to be :-)

    2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022

    Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out

    2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022

Snopes2

proper nounSnopes (plural Snopeses)

plural Snopeses

  1. A surname.

    At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies.

    1969 January 17, “Essay: Are the WASPS Coming Back? Have They Ever Been Away?”, in Time, →ISSN
verbSnopes (third-person singular simple present Snopeses, present participle Snopesing, simple past and past participle Snopesed)

present singular third person Snopeses · participle present Snopesing · participle past Snopesed · past Snopesed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of snopes.
Cite this entry
APA

snopes. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snopes

MLA

“snopes.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snopes. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snopes,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snopes.

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