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Definition of "snack" []

  • A hurried or light meal. (noun)
  • Food eaten between meals. (noun)
  • To eat a hurried or light meal. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "snack" in a sentence
  • "This snack is also called Pava-chi bhaaji ie. bhaaji made from pav."
  • "My guides led me to the big, tidy, silvery kitchen where Jesse magnanimously opened what she called the snack locker."
  • "Jones, hearty and hospitable in these last hours, had provided what he called a snack, and both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz."