snack

• IPA^(key): /snæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).

snack (plural snacks)

2. A light meal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:meal

4. An item of food eaten between meals.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

5. (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
   • 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications:

     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.”

   • 2019, Loy A. Webb, The Light, Concord Theatricals, →ISBN, page 22:

     You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.

   • 2020, Gena Showalter, Prince of Stone, HQN Books, →ISBN:

     Her confusion amped up. But so did her attraction. He was a total snack.

• (attractive person): snacc

• munchies
• fast food
• takeaway

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. To eat a light meal.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:

     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.

2. To eat between meals.

   Coordinate term: graze

• snack down on
• snacker

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

snack (plural snacks)

1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
   • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 4, lines 65–66:

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

   • 1894 July 5, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Hammerpond Park Burglary”, in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1895, →OCLC, pages 216–217:

     "Have you exhibited very much?" said Young Person in the bar-parlour of the "Coach and Horses," where Mr Watkins was skilfully accumulating local information on the night of his arrival. / "Very little," said Mr Watkins, "just a snack here and there."

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To share.

• OED

• nacks

• IPA^(key): /snɛk/

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Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).

snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)

1. snack

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

snack

1. inflection of snacken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.

• IPA^(key): /snak/

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snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack bar

   Synonym: snack-bar

• “snack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English snack.

snack n (plural snackuri)

1. snack

Unadapted borrowing from English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnak/ [ˈznak], /esˈnak/ [ezˈnak]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: snack

snack m (plural snacks)

1. snack

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Deverbal from snacka (“to chat, to talk”).

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snack n (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) talk, speech
2. (colloquial) a talk

   Kan vi ta ett snack?

   Could we have a talk?

   Jag ska ta ett allvarligt snack med honom

   I will have a serious talk with him

3. (colloquial, sometimes) bull, nonsense, empty talk (mostly from "snack" sounding colloquial and lending itself to such usage)

   Äh, vilket snack!

   Eh, what a load of nonsense!

   mycket snack och lite substans

   plenty of hot air and little substance

4. (idiomatic, colloquial, in "(det är) inget snack om saken" ((there is) no talk of the matter)) (there is) no question about it (it definitely is the case)

   Han är skyldig. Det är inget snack om saken.

   He is guilty. There is no question about it.

See also snacka, where tone also comes in.

• snacka

• samtal

• snack in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• snack in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)