snap

A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.

A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.

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

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

a ginger snap

A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.

A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.

It'll be a snap to get that finished.

I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.

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.

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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.

2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time:

(American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.

(colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.

(fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.

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

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

(UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.

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

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

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

He's a nimble fellow, / And alike skill'd in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.

1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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.

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 […]

1876, Publications, London, England: New Shakspere Society, page 169:

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.

(slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.

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

1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Dines—and Tells About It”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 56:

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.

2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33:

(slang) Something that is easy or effortless.

(physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop

A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.

not worth a snap

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

2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51:

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

2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238:

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.

2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120:

(social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“[…] 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.

2017, Coulter, A Night’s Tale, BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

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?”).

2018, Elija Cassidy, Gay Men, Identity and Social Media: A Culture of Participatory Reluctance, Routledge, →ISBN:

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

2023 August 29, Alexis Sook, chapter 1, in Two Hearts or One, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 4:

(colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).

Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).

(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.

(uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.

A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.

(slang, dated) A brief theatrical engagement.

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.

2013, Paul Chantler, Peter Stewart, Basic Radio Journalism, page 159:

[…] 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.”

2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34:

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.”

2015, Simon J. Bronner, Encyclopedia of American Folklife:

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

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

2019, Anthony J. Fonseca, Listen to Rap!: Exploring a Musical Genre, page 1913:

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

A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.

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snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

Losbrechen

sudden release of something held under pressure or tension

sauma

slang: circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained

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physics: fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time

helppo nakki

slang: easy and profitable place or task

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

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Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”)

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”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

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West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”)


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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.

1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

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

Blazing firewood snaps.

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

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

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

She snapped at the chance to appear on television.

(intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.

He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.

(intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.

(intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.

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.

1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Colonel Lynch (William Lucking):

(intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.

(intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.

To flash or appear to flash as with light.

(intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.

To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.

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

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(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

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

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

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

(transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.

(transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.

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

1721, George Granville, “Cleora”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions:

(transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.

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.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:

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

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

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

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

To close something using a snap as a fastener.

MacMorian[…] snapped his fingers repeatedly.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

(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.

(transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.

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.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 64:

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

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.

2019, Keertiga Chandran, “Rockhurst”, in The Pebble Fall Theme Park: Welcome to the Pebble Fall Theme Park, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:

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.

2024, Jami Rogers, “Chapter Two: Natalie”, in Always Been Write: A Small Town, Best Friends to Lovers Romance (Lust or Bust; 6):

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

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

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

The gun snapped.

(cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).

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щраквам

to give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack

захапвам

to attempt to seize with the teeth or bite

проблясвам

to flash or appear to flash as with light

napsauttaa

intransitive: to fit or fasten together with a snapping sound

pompata

computing: to jump to a fixed position relative to another element

tiuskia

to speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly

napsauttaa

transitive: to cause something to emit a snapping sound

napsauttaa kiinni

to close something using a snap as a fastener

antaa aloitussyöttö

to pass the ball from the center to a back, to hike the ball

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The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.

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

(British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"

(British, by extension) Used to express agreement.

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

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

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

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

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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

1889, The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume 10, number 8:

(informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.

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