snacking
snacking is the present participle and gerund of snack.
Meaning of snack
Verb (1)
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
- To eat a light meal.
- Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66
- To eat between meals.
Verb (2)
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
Phrases with snacking
Questions about snacking
- What is snacking the present participle and gerund of?
- Snacking is the present participle and gerund of snack.
Words near snacking in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: snacking (page history and authors); snack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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