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snarfed

snarfed is the simple past and past participle of snarf.

Meaning of 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!
  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.
  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

Questions about snarfed

What is snarfed the simple past and past participle of?
Snarfed is the simple past and past participle of snarf.

Words near snarfed in the dictionary

  1. snares
  2. Snares penguin
  3. Snares penguins
  4. Snaresbrook
  5. snarf
  6. snarfed
  7. snarfer
  8. snarfers
  9. snarfing
  10. snarfings
  11. snarfle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snarfed (page history and authors); snarf (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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