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Definition of Snapper

1. Noun. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback. "The center fumbled the handoff"

2. Noun. Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas.

3. Noun. A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.

4. Noun. Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots.

5. Noun. Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters.

6. Noun. Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite.

Definition of Snapper

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

2. n. A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.

Definition of Snapper

1. Noun. Any of some 100 different species of fish. ¹

2. Noun. (Australia New Zealand) The fish ''Chrysophrys auratus'', but usually the adult fish of that species, with the young instead called cockney then red bream then squire, before reaching adulthood. (Reference: ''Australian Fish and How to Catch Them'', Richard Allan, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309. And ''Snapper'' entry in ''An Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', 1966 [ ¹

3. Noun. (American English) Any of a family of percoid fishes (qualifier Lutjanidae), especially the red snapper ¹

4. Noun. (Ireland) (slang) A baby (a human baby). ¹

5. Noun. (American football) - the player who snaps the ball to start the play. ¹

6. Noun. (American English) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface. ¹

7. Noun. (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer. ¹

8. Noun. (American English) (informal) snapping turtle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snapper

1. one that snaps [n -S] - See also: snaps

Medical Definition of Snapper

1. 1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip. 2. 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. The red snapper (Lutjanus aya, or Blackfordi) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (L. 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. 3. A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper. 4. The green woodpecker, or yaffle. 5. A snap beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snapper

snaphance snaphances snaphaunce snaphaunces snaphead snapheads snaping snapless snapline snaplines

snaplock snaplocks snappable snapped snapped one's fingers snapper (current term) snappered snapperhead snapperheads snappers

snappier snappiest snappily snappiness snappinesses snapping snapping-turtle snapping beetle snapping one's fingers snapping reflex

Literary usage of Snapper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"... and quits the Coach—The Captain is disappointed of his Dinner—We arrive at Bath—I accompany Miss snapper to the Long Room, where she is attacked by Beau ..."

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