snarf

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To eat or consume greedily.

   • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
   • Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]
   • "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
2. 2

   To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing

   To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

   • I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
   • As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices.
3. 3

   To slurp (computing slang sense)

   To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

   • I snarfed the whole database into my program.
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   1. 4

      To fetch (in general).

      • Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
      • ...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]

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