snopes

See also: Snopes

English

Alternative forms

• Snopes

Verb

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^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (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^[4] (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^[5] (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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