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Definition of snack noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

snack

noun
 
/snæk/
 
/snæk/
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  1. (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
    Topics Cooking and eatinga2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • light
    • little
    • small
    • …
    verb + snack
    • eat
    • get
    • grab
    • …
    snack + noun
    • food
    • lunch
    • meal
    • …
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  2. (Australian English, informal) a thing that is easy to do
    • It'll be a snack.
    3. 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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