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to stream snipe
01
to join a streamer's game after watching their live stream in order to gain an unfair advantage or target them
Slang
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Particle
snipe
Base verb
stream
Present tense
stream snipe
3rd person singular
stream snipes
Present participle
stream sniping
Past simple
stream sniped
Past participle
stream sniped
What does "stream snipe" mean in streaming slang?
The structure combines "stream" (referring to a live video broadcast) with "snipe" (to attack from a hidden position), forming a verb for a specific form of cheating. It is used to describe a player who watches a streamer's live broadcast to gain an unfair advantage, such as learning the streamer's location, strategy, or inventory in real time, then joining the same match to target them. Viewers typically accuse someone of stream sniping when a streamer keeps getting killed by the same opponent in suspicious ways.
Examples
I swear he's stream sniping; he showed up the second I moved.
