snarf

Thân thiện

A mischievous raccoon snarfed the picnic basket and scurried away.

Definition

Verb: - To take something quickly, stealthily, or without permission; to steal or appropriate. It implies a swift, often greedy or surreptitious, act of taking.

Usage

The verb "snarf" is informal and often used in casual contexts. It describes the action of grabbing or taking something, typically in a hurried or sneaky manner. It can be used both transitively (with a direct object) and intransitively (without one, though this is less common for the core meaning).

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "snarf down": To eat something very quickly and greedily.
  • He snarfed down his lunch in five minutes to get back to work.
• "snarf up": To quickly take or acquire something, often before others can.
  • Investors snarfed up the company's stock after the positive news.

Variants and Related Words

• Snarf can also be a slang term in computing, meaning to consume or read data, often from a network.
  • The program snarfed the configuration data from the server.

Synonyms

• Pilfer: To steal (typically things of little value).
• Swipe: To take something quickly or steal.
• Filch: To steal (something of small value) in a casual way.
• Purloin: To steal (a formal or literary synonym).

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Snarf down: As defined in Advanced Usage.
• Snarf up: As defined in Advanced Usage.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make off with belongings of others