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Snapper   /snˈæpər/   Listen
Snapper

noun
1.
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.  Synonym: center.
2.
Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas.
3.
A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.  Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon.
4.
Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots.  Synonym: Chrysophrys auratus.
5.
Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters.
6.
Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite.  Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle.



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"Snapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... were heart-shaped watch charms of copper, each with a raised initial and mounted on a stray of colored leather and furnished with a bar and snapper of gun metal. Margaret's little heart-shaped pincushions were suitable for boys and girls alike. Some of them were small, for the pocket or the handbag; others were larger and were meant to be placed on the bureau. They were of varied colors, the girls' being of silk to match ...
— Ethel Morton's Holidays • Mabell S. C. Smith
... wizard? dwont ye knaw, TheAse town is cAcll'd BejwActer!" Cried out a whipper-snapper man: ThAc all ...
— The Dialect of the West of England Particularly Somersetshire • James Jennings
... one!" said Samson, looking at his young master, and laughing. "Think of a whipper-snapper like you trying to capture a big chap ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life. But I'll seek out my doctor, and have my forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse!—O, yonder is his snipper-snapper.—Do you hear? you, hey-pass,[145] ...
— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe
... caused even pounds and shillings to shrink into less worth and significance than they formerly had,—in view of which fact, if we are to charge Alexander the Great (as in a famous anecdote he was charged) with the crime of highway-robbery, as the "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles" in the way of crowns and a few dozen sceptres, what a heinous charge must be brought against this Corsican as universal pickpocket! This pecuniary depreciation De Quincey himself realized some years later, when, determining ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


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