[
UK
/snˈæpɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsnæpɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsnæpɝ/ ]
NOUN
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(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
the center fumbled the handoff - flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
How To Use snapper In A Sentence
- In other matches University made it two wins in a row with a 4-2 win over Whippersnappers, although University slipped back to their bad habits and defaulted the bottom two boards.
- His furious lunge at the snapper has sullied his clean-cut image. The Sun
- We all tucked in to our dishes of fish, and although the salmon tandoori was probably a touch overcooked, the red snapper was glorious.
- Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
- His furious lunge at the snapper has sullied his clean-cut image. The Sun
- Small hard-skinned fish such as snappers, grouper, breams and hind should be gutted and scaled on capture and kept in slurry.
- Snapperton do last year at her dejeune dansant after the Bohemian The History of Pendennis
- In the second show of Nunnnington Hall's spring and summer programme, the iconic photography of British snapper Terry O'Neill will be on view from May 1 to June 25.
- On four dives there we would see a hawksbill turtle, huge parrotfish, various morays ranging from massive to tiny, jack, snapper, batfish and numerous other species.
- On the reef we saw nervous trunkfish, snappers and the odd barracuda.
