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Snap \Snap\, v. t. (Cricket)
To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled
ball).
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Snap \Snap\, v. i.
Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a
snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
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Snap \Snap\, n.
1. Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that
yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little
trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job where
work is light, a bargain, etc. [Slang, Chiefly U. S.]
2. A snap shot with a firearm.
3. (Photog.) A snapshot.
4. Something of no value; as, not worth a snap. [Colloq.]
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Snap \Snap\, a.
Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the
like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment
or decision; a snap political convention. [Colloq.]
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Snap \Snap\, v. i.
1. To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as,
a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the
hand that employs it. --Burke.
2. To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to
crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
3. 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.
4. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as,
to snap at a child.
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Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Snapping.]
[LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
beak, bill. Cf. Neb, Snaffle, n.]
1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
brittle.
Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.
2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
been snapped by it at last. --South.
4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.
5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
snap a whip.
MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
Scott.
6. To project with a snap.
To snap back (Football), to roll the ball back with the
foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
sides are ranged in line.
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Snap \Snap\, n. [Cf. D. snap a snatching. See Snap, v. t.]
1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
2. A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to
seize, as with the teeth.
3. A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung
from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
4. A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a
whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
5. A greedy fellow. --L'Estrange.
6. 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.
He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every
liberal science, As having certain snaps of all.
--B. Jonson.
7. A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the
weather; as, a cold snap.
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