snack

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An item of food eaten between meals.

   1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   A very sexy and attractive person.

   Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”

3. 3
   verb

   To eat a light meal.

   Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.

4. 4
   noun

   A share; a part or portion.

   All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks."

5. 5
   noun

   a light informal meal

6. 6
   verb

   eat a snack

7. 7
   noun

   A light meal.

8. 8
   verb

   To eat between meals.

Etymology

See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source.