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Snapper   /snˈæpər/   Listen
Snapper

noun
1.
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.  Synonym: center.
2.
Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas.
3.
A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.  Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon.
4.
Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots.  Synonym: Chrysophrys auratus.
5.
Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters.
6.
Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite.  Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle.



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"Snapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... peculiarly a "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," and his productions are often built up with the slenderest materials. Trivialities that might entirely escape the observation of others, or, if they were observed, would be regarded as of no possible moment, often supply the man who is in quest of posers with a pretty ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... doubt, depends upon the snapper," put in Mrs. Harrington, looking—perhaps by accident—at Fitz. "Fitz," she went on, "come here and tell me all about your new ship. I hope you are proud—I am. I am often laughed at for a garrulous old woman when I ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... reared in the best society, and had been precipitated from it by dice and drabbing; yet still it strikes against my feelings as a note out of tune, and as not coalescing with that pastoral tint which gives such a charm to this act. It is too Macbeth-like in the 'snapper up ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
... abundance. On our arrival the mules were picketed in the woods, for we did not like the music of their stamping on the planks of the forward deck. We reached the boat an hour before dinner-time, and Gopher had red snapper and spotted bass in a variety of styles for the meal. In the afternoon the gentlemen took to the woods with their sporting gear, but I remained to escort the ladies and protect them from rattlesnakes and moccasins, which they seemed to fear every time ...
— Down South - or, Yacht Adventure in Florida • Oliver Optic
... watch had been given him by his father when watches were watches long ago. It had given the law to house-clocks, stable-clocks, kitchen-clocks—nay, even to Hamley Church clock in its day; and was it now, in its respectable old age, to be looked down upon by a little whipper-snapper of a French watch which could go into a man's waistcoat pocket, instead of having to be extricated, with due effort, like a respectable watch of size and position, from a fob in the waistband? No! Not if the whipper-snapper were backed by all the Horse Guards that ever ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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