Snipe Hunt Meaning

(idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.

Example: 2012 December 13, Lucy Liu as Watson, “The Leviathan”, Elementary, season 1, episode 10:
  And you asked Charles Briggs for the name of the man who bought the secret, and he gives you a legend. A man who might not even exist. You know what, this is a snipe hunt.

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