nerd-snipe
verbEtymology From nerd + snipe. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2007 in his webcomic xkcd.
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Slang To present someone with a very interesting problem to solve, distracting them from whatever they were doing previously.
- […]I am looking forward to revising this chapter when better tooling becomes available (or I get nerd-sniped into writing it).2022, Luca Palmieri, Zero to Production In Rust: An introduction to backend development in Rust, →ISBN, page 330:
- Related terms
- nerd-sniper