Snickers
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsnɪkəz//
- États-Unis//ˈsnɪkəɹz//
A chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, with a peanut, caramel and nougat filling.
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A chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, with a peanut, caramel and nougat filling.
Over in a corner of the building, amid the packing crates and pallets, the snack bar is doing a land-office business. Burgers, hot dogs, potato chips, Snickerses, some fresh fruit and some tired-looking pastries, soda, and very respectable coffee are being dispensed by a hurried man named Willie and his three female assistants.
From his expression, it seemed that the only thing of importance taking place in the room was his deciding between a Snickers and a Babe Ruth!
"Yep," said Robin, reaching into the cooler for a diet soda and a Snickers.
He saw humans feed them something called a Snickers, and he could feel the pain of those same deer as their stomachs twisted and contorted, but they came back for more of these Snickers.
Étymologie
Coined in 1930, from the name of a favorite horse owned by the Mars family, from snicker (“to whinny”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Formes
- pluriel
- Snickerses
Snickers · A chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, with a peanut, caramel and nougat filling.
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