snack
noun/snæk/
/snæk/
- (informal) a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry
- a mid-morning snack
- I only have time for a snack at lunchtime.
- Do you serve bar snacks?
- a snack lunch
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- light
- little
- small
- …
- eat
- get
- grab
- …
- food
- lunch
- meal
- …
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- (Australian English, informal) a thing that is easy to do
- It'll be a snack.
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.
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