the.com/sniper

means A marksman who shoots targets from hidden, long-range positions — or, more broadly, anyone who strikes precisely and from a distance, unseen until the moment they act.

from Comes from 'snipe,' the marsh bird famous for its erratic, zigzagging flight that made it brutally hard to hit. In 18th-century British India, hunters skilled enough to actually bag a snipe earned the name 'snipers' as a badge of honor. The word later migrated to military slang for sharpshooters who could hit difficult, distant human targets — the bird's evasiveness becoming the hunter's own reputation for deadly precision.