Usually means: Quick, sudden breaking or movement.
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  1. snaping: Merriam-Webster
  2. snaping: Vocabulary.com
  3. snaping: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Snap)

noun:  A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
noun:  A sudden break.
noun:  An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
noun:  The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
noun:  A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
noun:  (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
noun:  The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
noun:  A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
noun:  A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
noun:  A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
noun:  A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
noun:  (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
noun:  (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
noun:  (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
noun:  (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
noun:  (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
noun:  (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
noun:  That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
noun:  Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
noun:  (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.
noun:  (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
noun:  A snapper, or snap beetle.
noun:  (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
noun:  A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
noun:  (colloquial) Something of no value.
noun:  (social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.
noun:  A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
noun:  (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
noun:  (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
noun:  A tool used by riveters.
noun:  A tool used by glass-moulders.
noun:  (slang, dated) A brief theatrical engagement.
noun:  (slang, dated) A cheat or sharper.
noun:  A newsflash.
noun:  (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
noun:  (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
verb:  (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
verb:  (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
verb:  (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
verb:  (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
verb:  (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
verb:  (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
verb:  (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
verb:  (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
verb:  (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
verb:  (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
verb:  (intransitive) To misfire.
verb:  (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adjective:  (informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
noun:  (social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
verb:  (social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
noun:  (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”). [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]
verb:  (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”). [(social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.]
noun:  (US) Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. [(US) a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low-income individuals]
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
noun:  (biochemistry) Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
noun:  (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat. [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]
noun:  (social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”). [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]
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