Meaning of snipe shooting in English:
snipe shooting
noun
mass noun historical, euphemistic Australian(in white usage) the practice of hunting and killing Aboriginal people with guns.
‘women and children were completely unprotected from settlers who chose to go out and do a bit of snipe shooting’- ‘Private persons go out to kill blacks and call it 'snipe-shooting'.’
- ‘"Snipe-shooting parties", whose real game was Aborigines, were common.’
- ‘Some whites regarded 'snipe shooting' as a 'Sunday' sport.’
- ‘Shooting aboriginals became sport—"snipe-shooting" they called it, and hungry aboriginals were poisoned like rats.’
- ‘The indigenous population was so reduced by disease, malnutrition, and human 'snipe-shooting parties'.’
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