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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snack
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sandwich/snack bar (=an informal restaurant or shop selling sandwiches/snacks)
▪ I usually get some lunch from the sandwich bar.
snack bar
video snacking
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
light
▪ I should have left you to fix your light snack and have an early night.
▪ There is a pool with a bar for light snacks, and a lift to the beach.
▪ During the course of the four hours, twenty-four cups of coffee were consumed and any amount of light snacks.
▪ The bar here is also popular with the locals, as is the small cafe for light snacks.
▪ Impressive enough as a light visual snack, but ultimately a ten-minute gag stretched far past breaking point.
▪ In the gardens there is a pool and patio served by a poolside bar which offers light snacks at lunch time.
▪ Luncheon was produced in double-quick time, a light snack of herrings àla Broadstairs, pies and salads.
▪ Once at the College we settled into the homely and very adequate accommodation before having a light snack.
■ NOUN
food
▪ No Friday lunchtime at the pub with the other teachers, no beer, no snack foods, definitely no chips.
▪ These should include snack foods providing vital proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and fats.
■ VERB
eat
▪ Many people who have trouble with diets are used to eating lots of snacks during the day.
▪ For most people, the sugary snacks simply add calories, while making you want to eat more.
serve
▪ A buffet-style breakfast is served and snacks are available at lunchtime if required.
▪ For those who don't want to cook for themselves, the bar serves snacks.
▪ The swimming pool has a snack bar which serves snacks and drinks throughout the day.
▪ Appetisers Serve these tempting snacks with a glass or two of your favourite festive fizz.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wine/coffee/snack etc bar
▪ Afterwards, I went to a wine bar with a couple of other crime writers.
▪ Complimentary coffee and tea; also has a coffee bar for espresso and biscotti.! end! &.
▪ If he was lucky he might start a wine bar when he left.
▪ The bakery has a coffee bar, and cappuccino is sixty cents!
▪ The other times he had sat in a coffee bar with her and listened to the juke box.
▪ There is a snack bar by the pool, a taverna in the grounds and an excellent restaurant in the Atlantis itself.
▪ Thurso has got a swimming pool and a wine bar.
▪ We went to a coffee bar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Just before bedtime he had a snack of bread and cheese.
▪ The children have mid-morning snacks at about 11 o'clock -- usually fruit and a drink.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At night, there will be champagne and snacks.
▪ G add A, D, E and K to snacks made with olestra.
▪ I feel the need for another fattening snack.
▪ It is almost half-past six and I am due to meet Sunil in our room for a quick snack.
▪ Not much flavour, but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack.
▪ On the other hand, there are times when a snack is needed.
▪ The breaking of the fast, called iftar, usually begins with a snack of dates and milk or water.
▪ We are only allowed to bring fruit as snacks to school.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Children who snack often develop poor eating habits.
▪ Tim was always snacking on potato chips and popcorn.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But like the classic wings, they are meaty and juicy and perfect for snacking.
▪ Don't eat or drink too many and don't snack on them during the day.
▪ Simple guidelines about only eating at the table at meal-times and not snacking may be required.
▪ They eat reasonably generous meals and they snack in between.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snack

Snack \Snack\, n. [See Snatch, v. t.]

  1. A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

    At last he whispers, ``Do, and we go snacks.''
    --Pope.

  2. A slight, hasty repast. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snack

c.1300, "to bite or snap" (of a dog), probably from Middle Dutch or Flemish snacken "to snatch, snap; chatter," which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic imitative root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose (see snout). The meaning "have a mere bite or morsel, eat a light meal" is first attested 1807. Related: Snacked; snacking.

snack

c.1400, "a snatch or snap" (especially that of a dog), from snack (v.). Later "a snappish remark" (1550s); "a share, portion, part" (1680s; hence old expression go snacks "share, divide; have a share in"). Main modern meaning "a bite or morsel to eat hastily" is attested from 1757. Snack bar is attested from 1923. Commercial plural form snax attested from 1942 in the vending machine trade.

Wiktionary
snack

Etymology 1 n. 1 A light meal. 2 An item of food eaten between meals. vb. 1 to eat a light meal 2 to eat between meals Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) A share; a part or portion.

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WordNet
snack

  1. n. a light informal meal [syn: bite, collation]

  2. v. eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" [syn: nosh]

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Wikipedia
Snack

A snack is a portion of food, smaller than a regular meal, generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home.

Traditionally, snacks are prepared from ingredients commonly available in the home. Often cold cuts, fruit, leftovers, nuts, sandwiches, and the like are used as snacks. The Dagwood sandwich was originally the humorous result of a cartoon character's desire for large snacks. With the spread of convenience stores, packaged snack foods became a significant business. Snack foods are typically designed to be portable, quick, and satisfying. Processed snack foods, as one form of convenience food, are designed to be less perishable, more durable, and more portable than prepared foods. They often contain substantial amounts of sweeteners, preservatives, and appealing ingredients such as chocolate, peanuts, and specially-designed flavors (such as flavored potato chips).

Beverages, such as coffee, are not generally considered snacks though they may be consumed along with or in lieu of snack foods.

A snack eaten shortly before going to bed or during the night may be called a midnight snack.

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Usage examples of "snack".

No elderly, overweight, unkempt and accented Polish Jew, long-retired from the snack bar business and needle trade, had ever managed an aperitif in the establishment, let alone membership.

A further note to the riddle of this sphinx was when Tim recently overheard the bohunk Albertsons manager telling his deli wenches to withhold the snack trays if they saw Tiresias at all.

ImpSec guards not above cadging a snack, and frequent State dinners, parties, or receptions where guests might number in the hundreds.

With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.

She went to one of the new places hidden among the foodie streeIs in Temple Bar for a snack.

Cordelia set a second bedroll, wrapped around trail snacks and supplies, in a grabbable bundle near the entrance.

I went to school so it would be jelled for your snack when I got home.

The pungent aroma wafting from the kitchen smelled of jent leaf and koroil: she always prepared a late-night snack for him, knowing how hungry he would be after long, hard hours spent casting and pulling in the weighted net.

We were sitting now in a corner booth of the Zimmertal, a becurtained Konditorei down the hill from the American enclave where the high school was, a place our classmates spurned in favor of the snack bar at the base exchange with its molded plastic chairs, ferociously orange.

Then, after his snack, at 2:50, Mamie ought to be back from running her dubious errand.

Toward Rand her motherliness extended to warm smiles and a quick snack whenever he came by the inn, but she did as much for every young man in the area.

Some optimistic soul had put up colored trimmings and streamers, and servants in full formal dress were preparing a buffet of little snacks and munchie things.

Sixteen channels away, a beautiful young woman in a sequined dress is smiling and dropping animal wastes into a Num Num Snack Factory.

The disembodied voiceover is saying how the Num Num Snack Factory takes meat by-products, whatever you have your tongues or hearts or lips or genitals chews them up, seasons them, and poops them out in the shape of a spade or a diamond or a club onto your choice of cracker for you to eat yourself.

You look like some meat byproduct ground up and pooped out by the Num Num Snack Factory.