stream snipe

verb

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.

“Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.”

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Meanings

verbstream snipe (third-person singular simple present stream snipes, present participle stream sniping, simple past and past participle stream sniped)

present singular third person stream snipes · participle present stream sniping · participle past stream sniped · past stream sniped · alternative streamsnipe

  1. Internetvideo gamesTo 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.

    Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.

    1 more example

    It is typically frowned upon to stream snipe another person.

  2. InternetbroadlyTo identify the location of and intrude the broadcast of an IRL live streamer.
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APA

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Chicago

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