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2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time:
According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.
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That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
(slang,archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.
1876, New Shakspere Society (London, England), Publications (page 169)
A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages, where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly find him sustenance. A Sea Soldier may now and than chaunce to haue a snapp at a bootie or a price, which may in an instant make him a fortune
1920, Cornell Forester, volumes 1-6:
The Profs they lead a jolly life, jolly life, / They're free from every care and strife, care and strife. / They make the studes, poor studes fall into line; / I wish the Profs' soft snap were mine.
I’m afraid my course is regarded as a ‘snap.’ Everybody, it seems, can grasp English literature (and produce it).
2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33:
The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.
2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51:
By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.
2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238:
The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.
2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120:
While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.
2013, Paul Chantler, Peter Stewart, Basic Radio Journalism, page 159:
A 'snap' usually becomes a 'newsflash' on air. Keep snaps short, only run them when news is really 'hot', and try not to break a story within a few minutes of the bulletin unless it is top priority.
(slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34:
[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”
2015, Simon J. Bronner, Encyclopedia of American Folklife:
The subcategory of snaps or rankouts often follows the formula of “Your mother's like——; she——,” or “Your mother's so——, she——.” Examples are “Your mother's like a door-knob; everyone gets a turn” and “Your mother's so low, she could play handball on the curb.”
The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.
(transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer,, published 1727, →OCLC:
He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.
(transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
(transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
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