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So, this morning in class, we were listing off verbs that end in -имать.  Someone said снимать and all the native speakers in the class started laughing.  The three of us non-native speakers were clueless and the professor was blushing. What happened?

I looked it up in the dictionary when I got home and it says it means "to remove."  Okay.  How is that so funny? I'm pretty sure it has some other meaning.  Any ideas?