Usually means: Practical joke, wild goose chase.
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  1. snipe hunt: Merriam-Webster
  2. snipe hunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. snipe hunt: Vocabulary.com
  4. snipe hunt: Wiktionary
  5. snipe hunt: Dictionary.com
  6. Snipe hunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. snipe hunt: Rhymezone
  8. snipe hunt: FreeDictionary.org
  9. snipe hunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. snipe hunt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snipe hunt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See snipe_hunting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (snipe hunt)

noun:  (idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.
verb:  (intransitive) To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt.

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