Dictionary:
snort (snôrt) ![]() |
- A rough, noisy sound made by breathing forcefully through the nostrils, as a horse or pig does.
- A similar sound: the snort of a steam engine.
- Slang.
- A drink of liquor, especially when swallowed in one gulp.
- Cocaine or heroin, especially a small amount sniffed at one time.
- The liquor or drug so taken.
v., snort·ed, snort·ing, snorts. v.intr.
- To breathe noisily and forcefully through the nostrils.
- To make a sound resembling noisy exhalation: “The wind snorted across the Kansas plains” (Gail Sheehy).
- To make an abrupt noise expressive of scorn, ridicule, or contempt.
- Slang. To ingest a drug, such as cocaine or heroin, by sniffing.
- To express by snorting: He snorted his disapproval.
- Slang. To ingest by sniffing: snorted cocaine.
[From Middle English snorten, to snort, from fnorten, variant of fnoren. See snore.]
snorter snort'er n.



