snarf

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To eat or consume greedily.

   He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!

2. verb To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

   I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.

3. verb To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

   I snarfed the whole database into my program.

4. verb To fetch (in general).

Similar words

pinch swipe lift filch nobble hook pilfer sneak purloin cabbage

Often followed by

down the up

Word family

snarfed snarfing snarfs