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- English Word Snap Definition To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
- English Word Snap Definition To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
- English Word Snap Definition To project with a snap.
- English Word Snap Definition To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
- English Word Snap Definition To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
- English Word Snap Definition To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
- English Word Snap Definition To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
- English Word Snap Definition To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
- English Word Snap Definition A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
- English Word Snap Definition A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
- English Word Snap Definition A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
- English Word Snap Definition A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
- English Word Snap Definition A greedy fellow.
- English Word Snap Definition 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.
- English Word Snap Definition A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
- English Word Snap Definition A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
- English Word Snap Definition A snap beetle.
- English Word Snap Definition A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Snap Definition Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
- English Word Snap Definition Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
- English Word Snapdragon Definition Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
- English Word Snapdragon Definition A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
- English Word Snapdragon Definition A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
- English Word Snape Definition To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
- English Word Snaphance Definition A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.
- English Word Snaphance Definition A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
- English Word Snaphead Definition A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
- English Word Snapped Definition of Snap
- English Word Snapper Definition One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
- English Word Snapper Definition Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.