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  • verb Present participle of snarf.

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Examples

  • “I don't know anything about that,” I say, snarfing up the third line, wondering if Billy's found Davis yet.

    Monkeytown excerpt 2 Chris Vola 2011

  • This was a serious debate attended by hundreds of students and highly-advertised, turning out to be very popular, and instead of snarfing my coffee, I say, "If this is so, with respect, Mr. Corbett, why did you agree to debate this specific topic?"

    March 2010 2010

  • “It's a secret society of bean pie snarfing seditionists what's behind the dude — watch out!”

    “Hello Malcolm...Hello Martin...” 2008

  • “It's a secret society of bean pie snarfing seditionists what's behind the dude — watch out!”

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • They're the lean whip of a guy who had the fast metabolism seemingly forever, snarfing down burgers by the bagful -- shakes by the gallon, and now thirty-plus years old, BOOM!, the jello-shaking gut appears, he can't get up the steps anymore, and his chest is always hurting him now.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • It looks like you snarfing down those potato chips last week.

    Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010

  • We need be to growing carbon-snarfing produce as if our lives depend on it.

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Superheroes 2010

  • This was a serious debate attended by hundreds of students and highly-advertised, turning out to be very popular, and instead of snarfing my coffee, I say, "If this is so, with respect, Mr. Corbett, why did you agree to debate this specific topic?"

    Delightful 2010

  • After the 36-hole marathon, there was some snarfing of Advil, followed the next morning by some unmanly whining about the wisdom of playing yet another round before leaving.

    All Fore One: College pals reunite 35 years later at a golf resort Tom Shroder 2010

  • It looks like you snarfing down those potato chips last week.

    Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010

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  • Wikipedia - "where a cache controller watches both address and data in an attempt to update its own copy of a memory location when a second master modifies a location in main memory. When a write operation is observed to a location that a cache has a copy of, the cache controller updates its own copy of the snarfed memory location with the new data."

    June 10, 2010

  • And you thought it was an 80's term in the US for quickly sucking up Jello(tm) and other foods. The word found its way into the tech industry rather quickly.

    June 10, 2010

  • I seem to remember Vonnegut giving it a rather different and disturbing definition.

    June 10, 2010