- [countable] a sudden sharp noise, especially one made by something closing or breaking
- She closed her purse with a snap.
- the snap of a twig
- (also snapshot)[countable] a photograph, especially one taken quickly
- holiday snaps
Extra ExamplesTopics Holidaysc2- I managed to get a snap of the incident.
- She took a snap of all the hotels we stayed in.
- Snap[uncountable] a card game in which players take turns to put cards down and try to be the first to call out ‘snap’ when two similar cards are put down togetherTopics Games and toysc2
- (North American English) (British English press stud, popper)a type of button used for fastening clothes, consisting of two metal or plastic sections that can be pressed together see also brandy snap, cold snap, sugar snap
sharp noise
photograph
card game
fastener
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the senses ‘make a sudden audible bite’ and ‘quick sharp biting sound’): probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snappen ‘seize’; partly imitative.
Idioms
See snap in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe a snap
- (North American English, informal) to be very easy to do
- This job's a snap.
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