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Snapper   /snˈæpər/   Listen
noun
Snapper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
2.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America. Note: The red snapper (Lutjanus aya syn. Lutjanus Blackfordi) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (Lutjanus griseus) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See Rosefish.
3.
(Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
4.
(Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
5.
(Zool.) A snap beetle.
6.
(Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
7.
A string bean. (Colloq., U. S.)






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"Snapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... and are of a dun colour, with large eyes, their teeth being three inches long. One of these animals will yield a considerable quantity of oil, which is sweet and answers well for frying. They feed on fish, yet their flesh is tolerably good. The snapper is a fish having a large head, mouth, and gills, the back red, the belly ash-coloured, and its general appearance resembling a roach, but much larger, its scales being as broad as a shilling. The rock-fish, called ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr

... frightened to speak or move, for they were quite certain there was magic being used against them, for strength alone could never have overthrown their 'Cap'en' like that, certainly not the strength of 'a little whipper-snapper ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... see our old friend Professor Bumper left, would you, after he had worked out the secret of the idol of gold? You wouldn't want some young whipper-snapper to beat him in the race, ...
— Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold • Victor Appleton

... But that they are of superlative excellence, brilliant, delicate, accurate, life-like, and nature-like, is what none will dispute. Look at these turtles, models of real-estate owners as they are, Observe No. 13, Plate IV.,—"Chelydra Serpentina,"—"snapper", or "snappin' turtle," in the vernacular. He is out collecting rents from the naked-skinned reptiles, his brethren; in default thereof, taking the bodies of the aforesaid. Or behold No. 5, Plate VI., bewailing the wretchedness of those who have no ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... Saunders, Edward Scientific observations commenced work proposed 'Scotia' Scott Sea-elephants Sea-leopard Seal blubber meat Seals Crab-eater Ross Weddell Semaphore for sledging parties on bridge Shags Shackleton, Sir E. Shoaling, of sea-floor Shore party Sledging parties, proposed Snapper (dog) Snow Hill Soldier (dog) Sorlle, Mr. South Georgia Orkneys Sandwich Group 'Southern Sky' Spencer-Smith Splitting ice-floes Stained Berg Stancomb Wills, Dame Janet 'Stancomb Wills' (boat) Stenhouse Stevens Stove Stromness Sue (dog) Sun disappears See ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton


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