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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)

  1. 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
  2. To eat between meals.

Verb (2)

snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To share.

See all 9 meanings of snack

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

  1. snackie
  2. snackier
  3. snackies
  4. snackiest
  5. snackification
  6. snacking
  7. snacking down on
  8. snackish
  9. snackle
  10. snackles
  11. snackless

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