Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as snap-jack.

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  • noun Plural form of snapper.

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Examples

  • That TATP is used in "snappers" or, as you cite from Wikipedia, "torpedos," is categorically false.

    Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Seems a bit drastic as a way of getting police officers (although from some sources it seems this blitz on happy snappers is largely down to over officious CSOs rather than PCs) to use their common sense.

    ‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The northerly occurrence of snappers is interesting, as not only are they cold-tolerant, they’re really cold tolerant, and able to tolerate literally freezing conditions.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Several "snappers" go through the motions and take his picture but the results are little used.

    Qana - the director's cut Richard 2006

  • Including the person who took the photograph, I count no less than ten "snappers" (or their cameras) in the frame in what could not be a more obvious example of a staged photo-opportunity.

    All the world's a stage Richard 2006

  • Into that barrel somebody had thrown a lighted bunch of firecrackers -- about the safest way in which those noisy and delightful "snappers" can be exploded.

    Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

  • Jean Forette drive him in, telling Shag to meet him at a certain dock where they would drop down the inlet and try for "snappers," young bluefish, elusive, gamy and delicious eating.

    The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele

  • Cleveland's supporters, however, denounced the "snap convention" and a factional quarrel arose between the "snappers" and the "anti-snappers"; outside of New York it was so obvious that the snap convention was a mere political trick that the Hill cause was scarcely benefited by it.

    The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

  • George Clooney has said that if you limit the freedom of the paparazzi, you’re restricting freedom of speech, even if he did manage to call the snappers "jerks," "rotten,"

    SLACKERJACK – Paparazzi 2005

  • Some common street names for inhalants include "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide), "snappers"

    News 2010

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