snarf

UK /snɑː(ɹ)f/ US /snɑː(ɹ)f/
verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To eat or consume greedily.

He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!

Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]

2

To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.

As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices.

3

To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

I snarfed the whole database into my program.

4

To fetch (in general).

Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.

...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]

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