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snacks

snacks is the plural of snack.

snacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snack.

Meaning of snack

Noun (1)

snack (plural snacks)

  1. A light meal.
  2. An item of food eaten between meals.
    • Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
  3. (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
    • Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications

Noun (2)

snack (plural snacks)

  1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
    • All my demurrs but double his attacks; / At laſt he vvhiſpers, "Do; and vve go ſnacks."1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 4, lines 65–66

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What is snacks the plural of?
Snacks is the plural of snack.

Words near snacks in the dictionary

  1. snacklike
  2. snackmaker
  3. snackmakers
  4. snacko
  5. snackos
  6. snacks
  7. snacks down on
  8. snacktime
  9. snacktimes
  10. snacktivities
  11. snacktivity

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