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   Snap (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Snapping.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel beak, bill.  Cf. Neb, Snaffle, n.]
   1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
   
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   Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior.
   
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   2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
   
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   3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
   
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   He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. South.
   
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   4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.  Granville.
   
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   5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, “to snap a whip”.
   
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   MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott.
   
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   6. To project with a snap.
   
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   7. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
   
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   To snap back (Football), to roll the ball back with the foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both sides are ranged in line. -- To snap off. (a) To break suddenly. (b) To bite off suddenly.
   
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   Snapping (?), a. & n. from Snap, v.
   
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   Snapping beetle. (Zool.) See Snap beetle, under Snap. -- Snapping turtle. (Zool.) (a) A large and voracious aquatic turtle (Chelydra serpentina) common in the fresh waters of the United States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle. (b) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.
   
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