meaning of snap
1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
6. To project with a snap.
7. To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
8. To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
9. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
10. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
11. To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
12. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
13. A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
14. A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
15. A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
16. A greedy fellow.
17. 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.
18. A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
19. A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
20. A snap beetle.
21. A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
22. Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
23. Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
24. American football putting the ball in play by passing it between the legs to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the
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