snarf

vt. 很快地吃[或喝], 贪婪地吃[或喝]

发音

AU /snɑː(ɹ)f/

词形变化

snarfed snarfing snarfs 三单 snarfs snarfing 现在分词 snarfed 过去式 snarfed 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To eat or consume greedily.

    俚语 及物

    He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!

  2. 2.

    To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

    俚语 及物

    I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.

  3. 3.

    To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

    俚语 及物 计算机 工程 数学

    I snarfed the whole database into my program.

  4. 4.

    To fetch (in general).

    俚语 及物 计算机 工程 数学 引申义

    2001: Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing, in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314. Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation; […]

词汇关系

词源

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.

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