snarf

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snarf

/snɑː(ɹ)f/

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Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.

verb snarfs · snarfing · snarfed

slang, transitive To eat or consume greedily. He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
slang, transitive 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.
slang, transitive To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole. I snarfed the whole database into my program.
broadly, slang, transitive To fetch (in general). Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.

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@misc{snarf_2026,
  title = {snarf},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/snarf},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}