Definition of snack
:a light meal :food eaten between regular meals;
also
:food suitable for snacking
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Examples of snack in a Sentence
He had a snack of chips and dip.
I didn't have time for lunch so I just grabbed a quick snack.
peanuts, potato chips, and other snack foods
Recent Examples of snack from the Web
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Coffee companies could certainly capitalize on these findings to promote the sales of post-coffee snacks, or to make their drinks sweeter.
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Asked about his internship at DDB advertising, ChiTech student Devante Jordan mentioned three things—the plentiful snacks, the scooters used to speed around the office, and Jennifer Garner.
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Popcorn Popcorn is a snack practically made for Disneyland!
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The company sales a wide-variety of breads, condiments, breakfast treats, crackers, snacks, buns, crusts, and desserts, all abiding by SCD, GAPS and vegetarian standards.
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The event begins with an up-close demo on breaking down a whole hog, accompanied by drinks and snacks, and is followed by a multi-course dinner of local, organic, heritage pork.
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Practice tonight and tomorrow a first round win-or-go home (after snacks) playoff baseball game at Legion Park on Chicago's Northwest Side.
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New Nestle Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider has laid out a strategy of investing in businesses like coffee, water and pet food, which are growing more rapidly than chocolate and snacks.
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Many healthy snacks marketed as low fat also have very high sugar content, which promotes obesity.
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Origin and Etymology of snack
Middle English snak bite, from snaken to bite, perhaps from Middle Dutch snacken to snap at — more at snatch
Definition of snack
intransitive verb
:to eat a snack
Examples of snack in a Sentence
She tries not to snack between meals.
I'll just snack on an apple if I'm hungry.
Recent Examples of snack from the Web
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Case in point: Jack Antonoff snacking on a banana during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.
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At one point, Delilah wanders over to a supine Sybert and attempts to snack on her ponytail.
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Grizzly bears on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are forsaking salmon and snacking on ____________ instead.
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Rave apples are meant for snacking, and pair well with cheese and charcuterie.
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Leave it to scientists to ruin late-night snacking for the rest of us pleebs.
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PRICES Snacks $4-$8; salads $9-$15; antipasti $9-$16; pizza $13-$20.
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Tips to beat the heat in the right way ▪ Snack it up.
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As the night wore on, Tory staffers on the fourth floor of the party’s offices at 4 Matthew Parker Street snacked on supermarket quiche and drowned their sorrows in bottles of beer, and white and rose wine.
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First Known Use of snack
1807
SNACK Defined for English Language Learners
snack
verb
Definition of snack for English Language Learners
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: to eat a small amount of food between meals : to eat a snack
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