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1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT.
2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning ‘to eat piggishly’. It may still have this connotation in context. “He's in the snarfing phase of hacking — FTPing megs of stuff a day.”
3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). “They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them.”
4. Syn. for slurp. “This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core, then....”
5. [GEnie] To spray food or programming fluids due to laughing at the wrong moment. “I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I snarfed all over my desk.” “If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard condom.” [This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers —ESR] The sound of snarfing is splork!.
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verb trans.
verb trans.
1: To eat or drink quickly or greedily. (1963 —) .
J. Leavy If they behave, they are allowed out to mingle with the glitterati for exactly one half hour and snarf up crudités and crab claws (1990).
2: To grab or snatch, esp. without permission; to take greedily. (1968 —) .
3: To inhale (a drug in powdered form). (1973 —) . Hence snarfernoun (1973 —) .
[Imitative, perh. influenced by scarfverb 2 .]
verb trans.
1: To eat or drink quickly or greedily. (1963 —) .
J. Leavy If they behave, they are allowed out to mingle with the glitterati for exactly one half hour and snarf up crudités and crab claws (1990).
2: To grab or snatch, esp. without permission; to take greedily. (1968 —) .
3: To inhale (a drug in powdered form). (1973 —) . Hence snarfer
[Imitative, perh. influenced by scarf
| snapper, snap, snaky | |
| snarfle, snatch, snavel |
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categories related to 'snarf'
- Internet and World Wide Web - snarf: (vb) fetch a set of files or a quantity of data
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Snarf or SNARF may refer to:
- Snarf (ThunderCats), one of several characters on the television show ThunderCats
- Snarf (Trollz), a character from the animated television series Trollz
- Snarfing, information theft or data manipulation in wireless, local networks
- Snarf, the main character from SnarfQuest, a comic that ran from 1985–1989 in Dragon magazine
- Snarf, an underground comic published in the early 1970s by Denis Kitchen
- Snarf, a term used for the "copy" operation in the Blit and Plan 9 windowing systems.
- SNARF-1, or Seminaphtharhodafluor, a fluorescent dye that changes colour with pH
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