What is "snarf"

"to take, grab," by 1989. Related: Snarfed; snarfing.

vb. 1 (context transitive slang English) To eat or consume greedily. 2 (context transitive slang English) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette. 3 (context transitive slang English) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full. 4 (context transitive slang computing English) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.

v. make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]

Snarf or SNARF may refer to:

• Snarf (ThunderCats), one of several characters on the television show ThunderCats
• Snarf (Trollz), a character from the animated television series Trollz
• Snarfing, information theft or data manipulation in wireless, local networks
• Snarf, the main character from SnarfQuest, a comic that ran from 1985–1989 in Dragon magazine''
• Snarf, an underground comic published in the early 1970s by Denis Kitchen
• Snarf, a term used for the "copy" operation in the Blit and Plan 9 windowing systems.
• SNARF-1, or Seminaphtharhodafluor, a fluorescent dye that changes colour with pH
• Using a bus-based cache coherence scheme, when the memory system grabs a copy of the data headed for another processor, it is said to snarf the data.

Snarf is a fictional character featured in the ThunderCats franchise.