Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hurried or light meal.
- noun Food eaten between meals.
- intransitive verb To eat a hurried or light meal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A snatch or snap, as of a dog's jaws.
- noun A bite, as of a dog.
- noun A portion of food that can be eaten hastily; a slight, hasty repast; a bite; a luncheon.
- noun A portion or share of food or of other things: used especially in the phrase to go snacks—that is, to share; divide and distribute in shares.
- To snatch.
- To bite.
- To go snacks in: share.
- To go snacks or shares; share.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
- noun colloq. A slight, hasty repast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
share ; apart orportion . - noun A light
meal . - noun An
item offood eaten between meals. - verb to
eat a light meal - verb to
eat between meals
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light informal meal
- verb eat a snack; eat lightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word snack.
Examples
-
This snack is also called Pava-chi bhaaji ie. bhaaji made from pav.
Masala Pav Anjali 2007
-
This snack is also called Pava-chi bhaaji ie. bhaaji made from pav.
Archive 2007-03-01 Anjali 2007
-
My guides led me to the big, tidy, silvery kitchen where Jesse magnanimously opened what she called the snack locker.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
-
Jones, hearty and hospitable in these last hours, had provided what he called a snack, and both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz.
-
You are right, this kind of snack is eaten across the world.
-
For 1,500 calories a day, combine this with another breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack from the menu.
-
An apple and cheddar snack is easy to take along to work or on the road.
-
For 1,500 calories a day, combine this with breakfast, lunch, dinner and another snack from the menu.
-
For 1,500 calories a day, combine this with another breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack from the menu.
Weight-Loss Challenge snack: Balsamic strawberries romanoff 2010
-
The only time consuming piece of this snack is that you need to let the layers set up one by one.
ruzuzu commented on the word snack
"8. A portion or share of food or of other things: used especially in the phrase to go snacks—that is, to share; divide and distribute in shares." -- Cent. Dict.
June 14, 2011
yarb commented on the word snack
"We went down stairs, and conferred together on our expectations, when I understood that each of them had been recommended to one or other of the commissioners, and each of them promised the first vacancy that should fall; but that none of them relied solely upon that interest, without a present to the secretary, with whom some of the commissioners went snacks."
- Smollett, Roderick Random, 1748
Thank you Cent. Dict. and Ruzuzu for helping me with this one!
May 21, 2014