snack

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Jones, hearty and hospitable in these last hours, had provided what he called a snack, and both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz.

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  1. noun A hurried or light meal.
  2. noun Food eaten between meals.
  3. intransitive verb To eat a hurried or light meal.

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  • A lion having a late night snack -- notice he's got a broken tooth. —  David Griffin on how photography connects us
  • They halted for a snack, as traveling made them hungry. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • Just slip on into your lunch box and when you're ready for a snack, they're ready for you. —  Products & Shopping
  • Popcorn chicken is a perfect snack -- crunchy, bite-sized and seriously addictive. —  Weekend Mixtape
  • Frozen fruit can be a cool summer snack, a great cereal topping, or the extra zing in a favorite dinner dish.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

dessert ·  candy ·  sandwich ·  beverage ·  lunch ·  pastry ·  cereal ·  cracker ·  refreshment ·  popcorn ·  pizza ·  biscuit

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snack:   snacks
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English snak, variant of snacche, trap, bite, from snacchen, to snap; see snatch.

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  1. from Middle English snakken (also assibilated snacchen, snecchen, later English snatch), snatch, = Middle Dutch snacken, snatch, snap, also as D. snakken, gasp, sob, desire, long for; prob. the same as Middle Dutch snacken, chatter, cackle, bark, Middle Low German Low German snachen = German dial. scknakken, chatter; prob. ult., like snap, imitative of quick motion. Hence snatch.
  2. from snack, v. Cf. snatch.
 

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