Usually means: Break quickly with sharp sound.
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  1. snap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. snap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. snap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. snap: Vocabulary.com
  6. SNAP, Snap, snap: Wordnik
  7. snap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SNAP, snap: Wiktionary
  9. snap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. snap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. snap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. snap: Dictionary.com
  13. snap (n.), snap (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. snap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. S.N.A.P, SNAP (programming language), SNAP, Snap (American and Canadian football), Snap (American football), Snap (band), Snap (card game), Snap (coach company), Snap (company), Snap (computer graphics), Snap (disambiguation), Snap (film), Snap (fingers), Snap (football), Snap (game), Snap (gridiron football), Snap (horse), Snap (physics), Snap (web framework), Snap, Snap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Snap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. snap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. snap: Rhymezone
  19. snap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. snap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SNAP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. SNAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. snap: Free Dictionary
  24. snap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. snap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. snap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAP: Band Terms
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snap: Legal dictionary
  2. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAP, snap: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. snap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. snap: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. SNAP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. snap: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Snap: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. The Snap, snap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Snap: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
noun:  A sudden break.
noun:  An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
noun:  The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
noun:  A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
noun:  (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
noun:  The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
noun:  A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
noun:  A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
noun:  A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
noun:  A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
noun:  (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
noun:  (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
noun:  (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
noun:  (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
noun:  (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
noun:  (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
noun:  That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
noun:  briskness; vigour; energy; decision
noun:  (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.
noun:  (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
noun:  A snapper, or snap beetle.
noun:  (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
noun:  A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
noun:  (colloquial) Something of no value.
noun:  (social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.
noun:  A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
noun:  (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
noun:  (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
noun:  A tool used by riveters.
noun:  A tool used by glass-moulders.
noun:  (slang, dated) A brief theatrical engagement.
noun:  (slang, dated) A cheat or sharper.
noun:  A newsflash.
noun:  (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
noun:  (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
verb:  (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
verb:  (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
verb:  (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
verb:  (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
verb:  (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
verb:  (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
verb:  (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
verb:  (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
verb:  (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
verb:  (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
verb:  (intransitive) To misfire.
verb:  (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adjective:  (informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
noun:  (social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
verb:  (social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
noun:  (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”). [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]
verb:  (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”). [(social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.]
noun:  (US) Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. [(US) a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low-income individuals]
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
noun:  (biochemistry) Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
noun:  (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat. [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]
noun:  (social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”). [(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.]

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