Definition of "snickering" [snickering]

• Present participle of snicker. (verb)

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• "And you could hear snickering from the tea-baggers."
• ""The house has definitely been altered," said Shannon Lee, the actor's daughter, who recalled snickering when she learned about the home's love hotel status in her mid-teens."
• "I recalled the snickering from the back of various class rooms that seemed to get progressively worse as we interrupted frog dissections and geometric shapes on overhead projectors to promote our latest musical ..."