Snack
[snæk]
Definition
(v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
(v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.
Checker: Spenser
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [England.] Luncheon, slight meal, hasty repast.
Typist: Wanda
Definition
n. a share: a slight hasty meal.—v.t. to snatch to bite: to share.
Inputed by Lennon
Examples
- We'll take a snack, and order dinner at the little inn--the Lennard Arms, it used to be,--and go and get an appetite in the forest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I'll take a stroll and have a snack, and you'll be back by that time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As a man with public business, I take a snack when I can. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Where did you tell the boy to meet us with the snack, Martin? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Allison