snack
A share. To go snacks; to be partners.
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snack
A share or division of plunder. To "go SNACKS," to divide equally. Also, a light repast.—Old Cant and Gipsy term.
snack down on
To eat.
snackerino
A snack.
snackeroo
A snack.
snaffle
Conversation on professional or private subjects which the rest of the company cannot appreciate. In East Anglia, to SNAFFLE is to talk foolishly.
snaffled
Arrested, "pulled up,"—so termed from a kind of horse’s bit called a SNAFFLE.
snaffler
A highwayman. Snaffler of prances; a horse stealer.
snaggle teeth
Those that are uneven, and unpleasant looking.—West.
snaggling
Angling after geese with a hook and line, the bait being a worm or snail. The goose swallows the bait, and is quietly landed and bagged. See Seymour’s Sketches.
snaggs
Large teeth; also snails.
snaggy
Cross, crotchety, malicious.
snail's pace
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snake eyes
Two ones in a dice roll
snake oil
A product or remedy that is worthless or fraudulent
snake tart
An eel pie.
snakes and ladders
a situation with unpredictable ups and downs
snam
To snatch, or rob from the person. Mostly used to describe that kind of theft which consists in picking up anything lying about, and making off with it rapidly.
snap at
to speak sharply or angrily
snap at someone's heels
To closely follow or pursue someone
snap back
to quickly return to a normal or original state
snap dragon
A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
snap it up
To quickly take or buy something
snap judgment
A quick decision based on limited information
snap of the fingers
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snap out of
to suddenly stop being in a negative state of mind
snap someone's head off
to speak sharply or angrily to someone
snap to attention
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snap vote
A vote taken unexpectedly, especially in Parliament.
snap, crackle and pop
To be lively and entertaining
snapps
Spirits. Dutch, SCHNAPPS. The word, as originally pronounced, is used by East-end Jews to describe any kind of spirits, and the Gentiles get as near as they can.
snaps
Share, portion; any articles or circumstances out of which money may be made; "looking out for SNAPS," waiting for windfalls, or odd jobs.—Old. Scotch, CHITS, term also used for "coppers," or halfpence.
snarl up
to entangle
snatch cly
A thief who snatches women's pockets.
snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snatch the pebble
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
snausage
A penis.
sneak
A pilferer. Morning sneak; one who pilfers early in the morning, before it is light. Evening sneak; an evening pilferer. Upright sneak: one who steals pewter pots from the alehouse boys employed to collect them. To go upon the sneak; to steal into houses whose doors are carelessly left open. CANT.
sneak out
to leave a place secretly and quietly
sneaking budge
One that robs alone.
sneaking suspicion
a faint, often unproven feeling that something is true
sneaksby
A mean-spirited fellow, a sneaking cur.
sneaksman
A shoplifter; a petty, cowardly thief.
sneaky Pete
A sneaky or deceitful person
sneaky-deaky
Sneaky.
sneck posset
A type of warm drink made with milk and ale
sneering
Jeering, flickering, laughing in scorn.
sneeze on the truth
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
sneeze-box
A snuffbox.
sneeze-lurker
A thief who throws snuff in a person’s face, and then robs him.
sneezer
A person's nose.
sneezer
A snuff-box; a pocket-handkerchief.
snell-fencer
A street salesman of needles. SNELLS are needles.
snick-ersnee
A knife.—Sea. Thackeray uses the term in his humorous ballad of Little Billee.
snicker
A drinking-cup. A HORN-SNICKER, a drinking-horn.
snide
Bad, spurious, contemptible. As, "a SNIDE fellow," "SNIDE coin," &c. Also used as a substantive, as, "He’s a SNIDE," though this seems but a contraction of SNIDE ’UN.
sniff
Cocaine.
snigger
To laugh in a covert manner. Also a mild form of swearing,—"I’m SNIGGERED if you will." Another form of this latter is JIGGERED.
sniggering
Laughing to oneself.—East.
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