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snopes (third-person singular simple present snopeses, present participle snopesing, simple past and past participle snopesed)

  1. (transitive, rare) To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.
    • 2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:
      Heh heh you got me.
      No, I didn't Snopes it before replying.
      Damn. Shame on me.
    • 2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:
      Why do people insist on "re-SNOPESing" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?
    • 2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:
      I remember the same doubt, and it's understandable that people would be skeptical about an amazing story like that. I had some spare time, hence the Googling and Snopesing.
    • 2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:
      Now some of these are bogus, or semi-bogus... Check 'em out if you need to (I'm not gonna do your snopesing for you :-) - but why spoil a good story with some factuality? If some of these aren't true, they ought to be :-)
    • 2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:
      Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out

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