"snopes" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snopeses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snopes (third-person singular simple present snopeses, present participle snopesing, simple past and past participle snopesed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Heh heh you got me.\nNo, I didn't Snopes it before replying.\nDamn. Shame on me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Why do people insist on \"re-SNOPESing\" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "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 :-)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
      ],
      "id": "en-snopes-en-verb-vi2IfreK",
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "accuracy",
          "accuracy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Snopes"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snopes"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snopeses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snopesed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snopes (third-person singular simple present snopeses, present participle snopesing, simple past and past participle snopesed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Heh heh you got me.\nNo, I didn't Snopes it before replying.\nDamn. Shame on me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Why do people insist on \"re-SNOPESing\" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "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 :-)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:",
          "text": "Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ],
        [
          "accuracy",
          "accuracy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Snopes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "snopes"
}