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snaffle up

snaffle up verb: to devour greedily.

Verb

snaffle up (third-person singular simple present snaffles up, present participle snaffling up, simple past and past participle snaffled up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To devour greedily.
    • We snaffled up all the chips before Jeff came to the table.
    Synonyms:
    gobble up

Synonyms of snaffle up

Forms of snaffle up

third-person singular presentsnaffles up
present participlesnaffling up
past participlesnaffled up
pastsnaffled up

Questions about snaffle up

What does snaffle up mean?
Snaffle up means to devour greedily.
What part of speech is snaffle up?
Snaffle up is a verb.
What is the past tense of snaffle up?
The past tense of snaffle up is snaffled up.

Words near snaffle up in the dictionary

  1. Snader
  2. Snaders
  3. Snaefell
  4. snaeng
  5. snaffle
  6. snaffle up
  7. snaffled
  8. snaffled up
  9. snaffler
  10. snafflers
  11. snaffles

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