snarf

1. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.Examples: "He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!"; "Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]"; ""I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself.""slangtransitive

2. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.Examples: "I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking."; "As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices."slangtransitive

3. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.Examples: "I snarfed the whole database into my program."slangtransitive

4. (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To fetch (in general).Examples: "Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory."; "...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]"; "2001: Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing, in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314. Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation; […]"broadlyslangtransitive