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noun

Snapper n.

One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

(Zool.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America. Note: The red snapper (Lutjanus aya syn. Lutjanus Blackfordi) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (Lutjanus griseus) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See Rosefish.

(Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

(Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

(Zool.) A snap beetle.

(Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.

A string bean. (Colloq., U. S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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