snap

1. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.Examples: "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."intransitivetransitive

2. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.Examples: "Blazing firewood snaps."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.Examples: "A dog snaps at a passenger. A fish snaps at the bait."intransitive

4. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.Examples: "She snapped at the chance to appear on television."intransitive

5. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.Examples: "He snapped at me for the slightest mistake."intransitive

6. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.intransitive

1. (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"Examples: "Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades."AustraliaBritishbroadly

2. (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.Britishbroadly

3. (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.Examples: "I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!"CanadaUS

4. (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.Examples: "—Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!"Synonyms: jinxAustraliaBritishNew-Zealand

1. (informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.Examples: "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"attributiveinformalnot-comparable

1. (US) Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.Examples: "Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy."; "Most of the current proposals to eliminate soda from SNAP come from reliably Republican states, but the partisan lines aren’t straightforward."USabbreviationacronymalt-of

2. (computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.abbreviationacronymalt-of

3. (computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.abbreviationacronymalt-of

4. (computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.abbreviationacronymalt-of

1. (biochemistry) Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.abbreviationacronymalt-of