snap

Adjective

1. Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
   • a snap judgment or decision
   • a snap political convention
   • Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society - 1889, The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume 10, number 8:

Interjection

1. The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
2. "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
   • Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
3. Used to express agreement.
4. Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
   • I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!
5. Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
   • —Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!

   Synonyms: jinx

Noun

1. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
2. A sudden break.
3. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
4. The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
5. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
6. A photograph; a snapshot.
   • We took a few snaps of the old church before moving on.
7. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
8. A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
   • a ginger snap
9. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
10. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
    • It'll be a snap to get that finished.
    • I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.
11. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
12. A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
    • According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles...

Verb

1. To fracture or break apart suddenly.
   • He snapped his stick in anger.
   • If you bend it too much, it will snap.
   • But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it. - 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that...
2. To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
   • Blazing firewood snaps.
3. To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
   • A dog snaps at a passenger. A fish snaps at the bait.
4. To attempt to seize with eagerness.
   • She snapped at the chance to appear on television.
5. To speak abruptly or sharply.
   • He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.
6. To give way abruptly and loudly.
7. To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
   • She should take a break before she snaps.
   • He was in the Thunderbirds before the war. One of the best combat pilots in 'Nam. Snapped. No doubt about it. - 1983, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, “Mexican Slayride”, in The A-Team, season 1, episode 1, spoken by...
   • At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead. In I&T, their opposite numbers began beating...
8. To flash or appear to flash as with light.
9. To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
10. To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
    • The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
11. To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
    • He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. - 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
12. To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.

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