Usually means: Inhale powdered tobacco through nose.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snuff: Merriam-Webster
  3. snuff, snuff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snuff, snuff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snuff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snuff: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snuff, snuff: Wordnik
  8. snuff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snuff: Wiktionary
  10. snuff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snuff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snuff: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snuff: Dictionary.com
  14. snuff (n.), snuff (v.1), snuff (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snuff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.N.U.F.F, Snuff (CSI episode), Snuff (Palahniuk novel), Snuff (Pratchett novel), Snuff (band), Snuff (country rock band), Snuff (disambiguation), Snuff (film), Snuff (song), Snuff (tobacco), Snuff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snuff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snuff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snuff: Rhymezone
  20. Snuff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snuff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Snuff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. snuff: FreeDictionary.org
  24. snuff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. snuff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. snuff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Snuff (tobacco), snuff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuff: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Snuff: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Snuff (tobacco), snuff: Medical dictionary
  5. Snuff: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snuff: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuff, snuff, snuff, snuff, snuff, snuff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snuff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
noun:  Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
noun:  A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
noun:  The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
noun:  Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
noun:  (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
noun:  (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
verb:  To inhale through the nose.
verb:  To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, slang, obsolete) To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.
noun:  The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
noun:  (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heeltaps.
noun:  (slang) A murder.
noun:  (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
verb:  To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
verb:  (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
verb:  (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.

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