Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of snarf.
Examples
““I don't know anything about that,” I say, snarfing up the third line, wondering if Billy's found Davis yet.”
“We need be to growing carbon-snarfing produce as if our lives depend on it.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Superheroes
“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.”
The Washington Post: All Fore One: College pals reunite 35 years later at a golf resort
“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?”
“It looks like you snarfing down those potato chips last week.”
“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.”
““It's a secret society of bean pie snarfing seditionists what's behind the dude — watch out!””
“Polls show American concern for avenging those lost in the war against those scone-snarfing ponces to be in the top five.”
“I'm snarfing the wireless from Cowpokes (nearby bar, I think?) that reaches to here.”
“Me: I snarf the beer. snarfing = verb, when liquid that you put into your mouth comes out of your nose.”
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Jubjub I seem to remember Vonnegut giving it a rather different and disturbing definition. Jun 10, 2010
hernesheir 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. Jun 10, 2010
hernesheir 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." Jun 10, 2010