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  • verb Present participle of snape.

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Examples

  • Well, he came over just as I was sure I saw Reginald Beecher next door on the veranda, and made himself a nusance right away, trying all sorts of kid tricks, such as snaping a rubber Band at me, and pulling out Hairpins.

    Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Well, he came over just as I was sure I saw Reginald Beecher next door on the veranda, and made himself a nusance right away, trying all sorts of kid tricks, such as snaping a rubber Band at me, and pulling out Hairpins.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • I had to eat my asparagas in the closet the other day, snaping them along the green/white zone blindfolded.

    In Denial About Meat « PubliCola 2010

  • When done like this, the nail touches the median nerve causing a motor reaction of the thumb snaping into the palm, as is shown on the Shroud of Turin.

    A request for information | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • ** Is the private sector version of IBEW's "Boss D'Arcy", getting close to snaping?

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • ** Is the private sector version of IBEW's "Boss D'Arcy", getting close to snaping?

    Friday Evening Wrap Up and Thoughts on Journalistic Malpractice and other News 2009

  • September 18, 2008 at 9:52 am yu mae nawt feels gud, butt yu iz steel finking smawrt wif snaping on yur CHRG!

    Could yooz hand me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Potter caugt a whacking snaping tirtle. he gave it to Sam Dire and he cut his head of after it was cut of it wood bite a stick.

    'Sequil' Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First 1899

  • Ed went first with the lantern and when he saw what it was he sed it is a snaping tirtle as big as a wash boiler. sum darn fool has tide it to the gnob. so George sed sumone cut the roap and we will get him and Warrin he sed look out them snapers will taik a mans hine leg off at

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

  • Terrible 3 or Terible 300 whitch wood dass to interfear with her. then old Steve he sed he had heard of sum things the desperrit villanes had did. they had tide a snaping tirtle to the doorgnob of old mister Tilton and he had been prety badly bit by him and that docter

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

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