"snap to" meaning in English

{
  "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 with particle (to)",
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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 with particle (to)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}