Meaning

A light meal..

Definitions by Sense

1. A light meal.
2. An item of food eaten between meals.
3. (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
4. To eat a light meal.
5. To eat between meals.
6. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.

Example Sentences

Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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.

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

"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."

Word Forms

• snacks
• snacc
• snacking
• snacked

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Use snack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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