snack

CEFRA1

/snæk/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small amount of food eaten between meals.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A very sexy and attractive person.

Examples

  • Do we have anything I can snack on?

  • There's enough time for a quick snack.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An item of food eaten between meals.

  2. A light meal.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To eat a light meal.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”). Cognate with German schnäken (“to snack”).