snarf

English

Etymology

Blend of snort +‎ scarf?

Verb

snarf (third-person singular simple present snarfs, present participle snarfing, simple past and past participle snarfed)

(transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
- 1999: Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, page 239
  Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container […]
- 2000: Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child, page 40
  "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
- 2003: Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well, page 41
  The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
(transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
- 1995: Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture, page 296
  Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
- 1996: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, page 399
  ...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; […]
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To expel (fluid or food) through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
It was so funny, I snarfed my milk onto my keyboard.
(transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
I snarfed the whole database into my program.

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单词	snarf
释义	snarf English Etymology Blend of snort +‎ scarf? Verb snarf (third-person singular simple present snarfs, present participle snarfing, simple past and past participle snarfed) (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily. He snarfed* a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!* 1999: Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, page 239 Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container […] 2000: Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child, page 40 "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself." 2003: Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well, page 41 The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette. I snarfed* a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.* 1995: Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture, page 296 Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory. 1996: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, page 399 ...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; […] (transitive, intransitive, slang) To expel (fluid or food) through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full. It was so funny, I snarfed* my milk onto my keyboard.* (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole. I snarfed* the whole database into my program.* Anagrams FRANs
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