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▸ 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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