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snack noun [ snak ]

• a small amount of food eaten between meals.
• "not many people make it through to the evening meal without a snack"
• a sexually attractive person.
• "it's clear from the pics that her new husband is a total snack"
• a thing that is easy to accomplish.
• "it'll be a snack"

snack verb

• eat a snack.
• "she likes to snack on yogurt"
Similar: eat between meals, nibble, munch, graze,
Origin: Middle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k ), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen . Senses relating to food date from the late 17th century.


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