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A hamlet in Goodleigh parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5934).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
One who, or that which, snaps.
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noun
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
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noun
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
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Usage: US
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noun
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
A small bluefish.
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Usage: US
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noun
A (human) baby.
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Usage: Ireland, slang
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noun
The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
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Usage: US
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noun
One who takes snaps; a photographer.
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Usage: slang
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noun
The snapping turtle.
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Usage: US, informal
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noun
The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
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noun
A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
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noun
A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A percussive musical instrument consisting of a pair of items to be snapped together; castanet or bones.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A string bean.
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Usage: US, colloquial
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noun
The vulva.
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Usage: slang
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noun
A punchline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle
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noun
A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: anti-snapper
noun
A stumble, a trip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
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Usage: Scotland
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verb
To stumble, to trip.
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verb
To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina
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Broader terms: snapping turtle
noun
any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
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Broader terms: food fish, percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: red snapper, Lutjanus blackfordi, grey snapper, gray snapper, mangrove snapper, Lutjanus griseus, mutton snapper, muttonfish, Lutjanus analis, schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus, yellowtail, yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus
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Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus
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Broader terms: sparid, sparid fish
noun
a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon
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Broader terms: party favor, party favour, favor, favour
noun
flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
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Broader terms: saltwater fish
Narrower terms: red snapper
noun
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: center
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Broader terms: lineman
History
Named after the former "Snapper" Inn.
Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English snapper From snap + -er.
From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).
