See snap to on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Ellipsis of snap to attention.", "forms": [ { "form": "snaps to", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "snapping to", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "snapped to", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "snapped to", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "snap to (third-person singular simple present snaps to, present participle snapping to, simple past and past participle snapped to)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"to\"", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 52:", "text": "There was a young woman in the shop, a rather massively built young woman with muscular calves and a deep chest. She was pointing out the seat of her bicycle to Oscar, who was saying \"Uh-huh\" and looking more at her than at anything else \"It's just a little too far forward […]\" Oscar repeated, \"Uh-huh\" automatically, then snapped to. \"Fix it in a jiffy,\" he said […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To suddenly give someone one's full attention." ], "id": "en-snap_to-en-verb-gmzdLiq1", "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To suddenly give someone one's full attention." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "word": "snap to" }
{ "etymology_text": "Ellipsis of snap to attention.", "forms": [ { "form": "snaps to", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "snapping to", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "snapped to", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "snapped to", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "snap to (third-person singular simple present snaps to, present participle snapping to, simple past and past participle snapped to)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English intransitive verbs", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"to\"", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 52:", "text": "There was a young woman in the shop, a rather massively built young woman with muscular calves and a deep chest. She was pointing out the seat of her bicycle to Oscar, who was saying \"Uh-huh\" and looking more at her than at anything else \"It's just a little too far forward […]\" Oscar repeated, \"Uh-huh\" automatically, then snapped to. \"Fix it in a jiffy,\" he said […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To suddenly give someone one's full attention." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To suddenly give someone one's full attention." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "word": "snap to" }
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