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)
- To eat or consume greedily.
- He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
- 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.
- To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
- I snarfed the whole database into my program.
- 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
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- Snarfed is the simple past and past participle of snarf.
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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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