snarf

Verb

snarf (third-person singular simple present snarfs, present participle snarfing, simple past and past participle snarfed)

1. (slang, transitive) To eat or consume greedily.
   • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
   • Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]1999, Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, page 239
2. (slang, transitive) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
   • I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
   • As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices.1982 December 11, Andrea Loewenstein, “The Joys of Community or Holiday-itis Strikes Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 12
3. (slang, transitive) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
   • I snarfed the whole database into my program.
4. (broadly, slang, transitive) To fetch (in general).
   • Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.1995, Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture, page 296
   • ...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]1996, Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, page 399