snarf

S0508025 (snärf)tr.v. snarfed, snarf·ing, snarfs Slang To eat or drink rapidly or eagerly; devour: snarfed down some cookies.

[Probably sn(ort) + (sc)arf.]

snarf

(snɑːf) vbinformal to eat or drink greedily

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Verb

snarf - make off with belongings of others cabbage, filch, pilfer, purloin, swipe, abstract, nobble, pinch, sneak, hook, liftsteal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

snarf

/snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document orfile for the purpose of using it with or without the author'spermission.

See also BLT.

2. (Unix) To fetch a file or set of files across a network.

See also blast.

3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms orpolitesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving awaysamples, so I snarfed a bunch of them."

4. Synonym for slurp. "This program starts by snarfing theentire database into core."

5. (GEnie) To spray food or programming fluids due tolaughing at the wrong moment. This sense appears to bewidespread among mundane teenagers - ESR.

6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eatpiggishly". It may still have this connotation in context.

7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usuallycovertly.

SNARF

Acronym	Definition
SNARF➣Social Network and Relationship Finder (Microsoft)
SNARF➣Seminaphthorhodafluors (Molecular Probes, Inc; visible light–excitable fluorescent pH indicators )
SNARF➣Syndicat National des Anesthésiologistes-Réanimateurs Français
SNARF➣Stable North American Reference Frame (university consortium)

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verb make off with belongings of others

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