Definition of "snarf"

snarf

/snɑː(ɹ)f/

verb
third-person singular simple present snarfs, present participle snarfing, simple past and past participle snarfed
1. (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
  Quotations
  Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container […]
  1999, Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, page 239
  "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
  2000, Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child, page 40
  The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
  2003, Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well, page 41
2. (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
  Quotations
  Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
  1995, Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture, page 296
  ...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]
  1996, Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, page 399
  Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation; […]
  2001: Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing, in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314.
3. (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

Definition of "snarf"

snarf

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