snarf

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To eat or consume greedily. slang,transitive
    — He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
  2. To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette. slang,transitive
    — I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
  3. To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole. slang,transitive
    — I snarfed the whole database into my program.
  4. To fetch (in general). broadly,slang,transitive
    — Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.

词形变化

snarfs present,singular,third-person snarfing participle,present snarfed participle,past snarfed past

词汇关系

词源

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.
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