snap

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
2. (countable, uncountable)A sudden break.
3. (countable, uncountable)An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
4. (countable, uncountable)The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
5. (countable, uncountable)A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
6. (countable, informal, uncountable)A photograph; a snapshot.

   “We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.”

7. (countable, uncountable)The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
8. (countable, uncountable)A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.

   “a ginger snap”

9. (countable, uncountable)A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
10. (countable, uncountable)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.

    “It'll be a snap to get that finished.”

    “I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.”

11. (countable, uncountable)A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
12. (countable, uncountable)A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.

    “According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.”

13. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
14. (countable, uncountable)A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
15. (UK, countable, regional, uncountable)A small meal, a snack; lunch.

    “When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.”

16. (uncountable)A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
17. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A greedy fellow.

    “up rises a Cunning Snap, then at the Board, who desir'd to be Inform'd”

18. (countable, uncountable)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 skill'd in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.”

19. (countable, uncountable)Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
20. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.

    “A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages, where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance. A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price, which may in an instant make him a fortune […]”

    “The Profs they lead a jolly life, jolly life, / They're free from every care and strife, care and strife. / They make the studes, poor studes fall into line; / I wish the Profs' soft snap were mine.”

21. (countable, slang, uncountable)Something that is easy or effortless.

    “I’m afraid my course is regarded as a ‘snap.’ Everybody, it seems, can grasp English literature (and produce it).”

    “The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.”

22. (countable, uncountable)A snapper, or snap beetle.
23. (countable, humorous, uncountable)jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
24. (countable, uncountable)A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
25. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)Something of no value.

    “not worth a snap”

26. (countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

    “By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.”

    “The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.”

    “While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.”

27. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

    ““[…] What’s your snap?” she asks. “Oh here.” He jerks for his phone not trying to test her patience or invitation. They trade info. “Cool,” she comments and memorizes his username.”

    “In addition to compliments (“that’s hot!”) and direct propositions (“please post a full frontal shot”), commenters often leave invitations on users’ posts to direct message them (“DM me!”), follow their account (“follow me”) or exchange usernames for the ephemeral social messaging service, Snapchat (“snap: @readyforyou”, “what’s your snap?”).”

    “He asked for my snap one day so I gave it to him, but strictly as friends and he knew that.”

28. (countable, uncountable)A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
29. (uncountable)A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
30. (countable, uncountable)A tool used by riveters.
31. (countable, uncountable)A tool used by glass-moulders.
32. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A brief theatrical engagement.
33. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A cheat or sharper.
34. (countable, uncountable)A newsflash.

    “A 'snap' usually becomes a 'newsflash' on air. Keep snaps short, only run them when news is really 'hot', and try not to break a story within a few minutes of the bulletin unless it is top priority.”

35. (countable, slang, uncountable)An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.

    “[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.””

    “The subcategory of snaps or rankouts often follows the formula of “Your mother's like——; she——,” or “Your mother's so——, she——.” Examples are “Your mother's like a door-knob; everyone gets a turn” and “Your mother's so low, she could play handball on the curb.””

36. (uncountable)A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.

    “Snap is another music style that came out of Atlanta. Snap is an early- to mid-2000s hip hop style derived from crunk.”

37. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
38. A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

    “The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days.”

39. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).

    ““Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.”

    ““What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.”

    ““I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.””

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To fracture or break apart suddenly.

   “He snapped his stick in anger.”

   “If you bend it too much, it will snap.”

   “But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.”

2. (intransitive)To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.

   “Blazing firewood snaps.”

3. (intransitive)To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.

   “A dog snaps at a passenger. A fish snaps at the bait.”

4. (intransitive)To attempt to seize with eagerness.

   “She snapped at the chance to appear on television.”

5. (intransitive)To speak abruptly or sharply.

   “He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.”

6. (intransitive)To give way abruptly and loudly.
7. (intransitive)To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.

   “She should take a break before she snaps.”

   “He was in the Thunderbirds before the war. One of the best combat pilots in 'Nam. Snapped. No doubt about it.”

   “At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead. In I&T, their opposite numbers began beating each other to death with keyboards, chairs, and even computer monitors while their Chief masticated her husband's digits.”

8. (intransitive)To flash or appear to flash as with light.
9. (intransitive)To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
10. (intransitive)To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

    “The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.”

11. (transitive)To snatch with or as if with the teeth.

    “He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.”

12. (transitive)To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
13. (transitive)To say abruptly or sharply.
14. (dated, transitive)To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.

    “A surly, ill-bred Lord, That chides, and snaps her up at ev'ry Word”

15. (transitive)To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.

    “to snap a fastener”

    “to snap a whip”

    “Three more birds came in, and as each took up his roosting place, the old bird repeated his challenge by snapping his beak at them.”

    “"Time's up!" said Mr. Peeble, snapping his watch.”

16. (transitive)To close something using a snap as a fastener.
17. (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.

    “MacMorian[…] snapped his fingers repeatedly.”

18. (transitive)To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
19. (intransitive)To move or shift suddenly.

    “The soldiers snapped to attention as the colonel entered the room.”

    “Veiksaar's half-baked .aic was running the camera feeds, and traced the path of destruction beginning in the workroom with brutal efficiency. The views snapped from scene to scene on five second intervals, and it was like watching an interpolation of every snuff film ever made.”

20. (transitive)To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).

    “He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.”

    “I arrive at the station in time to snap a few pictures and observe my fellow passengers.”

21. (alt-of, ditransitive)Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).

    “As I set myself up the round table, my phone lit up with a few notifications on Snapchat. Gustin snapped me a few pictures of the three boys in the park.”

    “Did you know she just joined Snapchat? Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.”

22. (transitive)To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).

    “He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.”

23. (intransitive)To misfire.

    “The gun snapped.”

24. (transitive)To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
25. (ditransitive)To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.

    ““Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.””

    “I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask^([sic]) me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.”

intj

1. The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
2. (Australia, British, broadly)"I've got one the same!", "Me too!"

   “Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.”

3. (British, broadly)Used to express agreement.
4. (Canada, US)Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.

   “I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!”

5. (Australia, British, New-Zealand)Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.

   “—Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!”

adj

1. (attributive, informal, not-comparable)Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.

   “a snap judgment or decision”

   “a snap political convention”

   “Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society”

name

1. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

   “Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.”

   “Most of the current proposals to eliminate soda from SNAP come from reliably Republican states, but the partisan lines aren’t straightforward.”

   “According to the Food Research and Action Center, 39 percent of children, 20 percent of seniors and 10 percent of disabled people across the country depend on SNAP to put food on their tables each month.”

2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical)Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of Snapchat.

   “Others pointed to messages on Snap, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with doctored clips of “news reports” saying that voting was rigged where they lived and said, Why even bother voting?”

   “Do you have snap? That at least has voice messages we could trade without trading numbers..ya know, in case im a psycho”

   ““What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.”

   ““What’s your Snap handle? We should become friends.””

   “That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??”