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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sniffer

"the nose," 1858, agent noun from sniff (v.).

Wiktionary
sniffer

n. 1 (context informal English) One who sniffs. 2 (context informal English) The nose. 3 (context computing English) A mechanism for intercepting and logging network traffic.

WordNet
sniffer

n. a person who sniffs

Wikipedia
Sniffer

Sniffer may refer to:

  • Packet analyzer (aka network analyzer, protocol analyzer or sniffer), computer software or hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network
  • Allan Clarke (footballer born 1946), the Leeds Utd, Fulham and England striker known by that nickname
  • A slang term for Intoxicative inhalants
  • Sniffer ( Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa), a 2013 Indian film directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta

Usage examples of "sniffer".

And while just about every forcer in the place clustered around the cordial crate enjoying my performance, the cargo laders for the port were passing the rest of my goods through the sniffer and hauling them over to the ship.

I stood there in the horrible bolshy bare hall and I got new vons, sniffing away there with my like very sensitive morder or sniffer.

It was one hundred and fifteen meters long and was comprised primarily of buckycarbon girders, with wrinkled radiation-shield fabric wrapped around module niches, semiautonomous sniffer probes, scores of antennae, sensors, and cables.

The sniffer led him scrambling up the slope to the outcrop, like a huge stone thumb thrust out of the mountain.

A hardwired hook sniffer: What edge will cut through the commodified wash of minute-15 Will-Have-Beens?

It was one hundred and fifteen meters long and was comprised primarily of buckycarbon girders, with wrinkled radiation-shield fabric wrapped around module niches, semiautonomous sniffer probes, scores of antennae, sensors, and cables.

Gradually he understood what a sniffer was and why Twana and her people were frightened of it.

If the sniffers could follow such a faint trail, they were as good as Twana said they were.

Somewhere in a remote hold of the CNSS Grandar Bay was a supply of equipment that had been superceded by the UPUD--motion detectors and aroma sniffers.

Brigadier Sturgeon ordered them issued, two motion detectors and one sniffer to each blaster squad in the two FISTs, and the Marines spent many hours in refresher training in their use.

He paused again to give the squad leaders time to check the motion detectors and aroma sniffers.

So none of them fell for the three hundred meters that the motion detectors and sniffers were silent.

And Saturday night at a Times Square sniffer palace, all glowlight and tinsel, we will inhale the most modern hallucinogens and enjoy two hours of earthy fantasy.

The sniffer glanced at the invitations, curling blackly in the fire, and winced.

A small mechanical sniffer confirmed his own suspicion of kzin pheromones, but in the breezy glade they were much dispersed.