snarfs

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