snack

noun

1. 1

   A light meal.

2. 2

   An item of food eaten between meals.

   Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.

   The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

3. 3

   slangA very sexy and attractive person.

   Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”

   You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.

   Her confusion amped up. But so did her attraction. He was a total snack.

verb

1. 1

   To eat a light meal.

   Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.

2. 2

   To eat between meals.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA share; a part or portion.

   All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks."

   "Have you exhibited very much?" said Young Person in the bar-parlour of the "Coach and Horses," where Mr Watkins was skilfully accumulating local information on the night of his arrival. / "Very little," said Mr Watkins, "just a snack here and there."

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo snatch.

2. 2

   obsoleteTo bite.

3. 3

   obsoleteTo share.

Forms

plural

snacks

past tense

snacked

past participle

snacked

present participle

snacking

third person singular

snacks