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snapps

snapps is the obsolete form of schnapps.

Meaning of schnapps

Noun

schnapps (usually uncountable, plural schnappses or schnapps)

  1. (usually) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
    • apple schnapps; peach schnapps
  2. (countable, usually) A serving of this beverage.
    • “What happened?” “You drank about a bottle of vodka and ten peppermint schnapps is what happened. Come on, up.”2009, Colin Broderick, Orangutan: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 3

Proper noun capitalized: Snapps

Snapps

  1. (plural) plural of Snapp

Questions about snapps

What is snapps the obsolete form of?
Snapps is the obsolete form of schnapps.
What part of speech is snapps?
Snapps is a proper noun.

Words near snapps in the dictionary

  1. snappish
  2. snappishly
  3. snappishness
  4. snappishnesses
  5. snappling
  6. snapps
  7. snappy
  8. snappy gum
  9. snappy gums
  10. snaps
  11. snaps at someone's heels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snapps (page history and authors); Snapps (page history and authors); schnapps (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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