snack (snăk)
n.

1. A hurried or light meal.
2. Food eaten between meals.

intr.v., snacked, snack·ing, snacks.
To eat a hurried or light meal.

[Middle English snak, variant of snacche, trap, bite, from snacchen, to snap. See snatch.]

snacker snack'er n.

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