snack

• IPA^(key): /snæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).

snack (plural snacks)

1. A light meal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:meal

2. An item of food eaten between meals.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

3. (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
   • 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications:

     Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”

   • 2019, Loy A. Webb, The Light, Concord Theatricals, →ISBN, page 22:

     You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.

   • 2020, Gena Showalter, Prince of Stone, HQN Books, →ISBN:

     Her confusion amped up. But so did her attraction. He was a total snack.

• (attractive person): snacc

• munchies
• fast food
• takeaway

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. To eat a light meal.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:

     Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.

2. To eat between meals.

   Coordinate term: graze

• snack down on

See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source.

snack (plural snacks)

1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
   • 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280:

     At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks."

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To share.

• nacks

Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).

• IPA^(key): /snɛk/

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snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)

1. snack

• snackbar

snack

1. first-person singular present indicative of snacken
2. imperative of snacken

From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.

• IPA^(key): /snak/

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snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack bar

   Synonym: snack-bar

• “snack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English snack.

snack n (plural snackuri)

1. snack

Unadapted borrowing from English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnak/ [ˈznak], /esˈnak/ [ezˈnak]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: snack

snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Deverbal from snacka (“to chat, to talk”).

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snack n (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) talk, speech

• snacka