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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snappy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snappy slogan (=one that is short and effective)
▪ They’ve come up with a good, snappy slogan for the product.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dresser
▪ Alec Llewellyn nodded seriously at me as he walked off in his blue overalls, Alec, that snappy dresser.
▪ But although a snappy dresser himself, he didn't actually buy anything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fashion editors love her snappy, colorful designs.
▪ We need to come up with a snappier slogan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But no snappy dialogue can overcome the lack of respect with which Smith treats the character of Alyssa.
▪ Can you think of a new snappy name for our club?
▪ Don't just give that page a simple title such as Locations, or a snappy one like Jumping off points.
▪ I was amazed at how snappy our practices were last week.
▪ People got snappy, and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave.
▪ This talented five-piece pours a sweet and sultry mix of original torch melodies with a twist of crisp and snappy swing sounds.
▪ Under other circumstances I'd have had a snappy answer for her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snappy

Snappy \Snap"py\, a. Snappish. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snappy

"quick, energetic," 1825, from snap (v.) + -y (2). Meaning "clever, smart" is from 1871; that of "neat and stylishly elegant" is from 1881. Related: Snappily; snappiness. Command make it snappy attested from 1910.

Wiktionary
snappy

a. 1 (label en informal) Rapid and without delay. 2 (label en informal) irritable. 3 (label en informal) tidy; well-dressed; sharp. 4 Chilly, brisk, sharp.

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WordNet
snappy

  1. adj. tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn: snappish]

  2. smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: whipping]

  3. pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term) [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, parky]

  4. marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, spruce]

  5. quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, spanking, zippy]

  6. [also: snappiest, snappier]

Wikipedia
Snappy (compression)

Snappy (previously known as Zippy) is a fast data compression and decompression library written in C++ by Google based on ideas from LZ77 and open-sourced in 2011. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. Compression speed is 250 MB/s and decompression speed is 500 MB/s using a single core of a Core i7 processor running in 64-bit mode. The compression ratio is 20–100% lower than gzip.

Snappy is widely used in Google projects like BigTable, MapReduce and in compression data in Google's internal RPC systems. It can be used in open-source projects like Cassandra, Hadoop, LevelDB, MongoDB, RocksDB, Lucene. Decompression is tested to detect any errors in the compressed stream. Snappy does not use inline assembler and is portable.

Snappy

Snappy may refer to:

  • Snappy (compression), a compression and decompression library
  • Snappy (package manager), a software tool for the Ubuntu operating system
  • Snappy Dance Theater, a dance company in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Snappy Sammy Smoot, a comic book character created and drawn by Skip Williamson
  • Snappy Snaps, a British photographic services
  • Snappy The Little Crocodile, English name of the German children's cartoon Schnappi das kleine Krokodil
  • Snappy Tom, a brand of can and pouch cat food in Australia
  • Snappy Tomato Pizza, a privately held American pizza chain
Snappy (package manager)

Snappy is a transactional package manager originally designed and built by Canonical Ltd. for the Ubuntu operating system and now available across a range of Linux distributions. The tool provides atomic, or "transactional" software updates. A single snap can work across those Linux environments, making snaps a universal Linux package.

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Usage examples of "snappy".

It would give off snappy, sputtery little gold sparks, little crackly sounds .

Louis Club, the terms of which McGraw has refused to ratify, the result being that the snappy little Baltimorean will in all probability not be seen on the ball field in a League uniform.

She settled on a snappy black silk dress and a loose black double-breasted leather jacket Heaven took a seat at the back of the family-member side so she could get a better look at the barbeque side.

Diesel motors and noninflammable gas, private cabins and a promenade deck, the Munchen had a billiard room, a dance orchestra, a floor show with some very snappy lady numbers, and a swimming pool.

Sikhs killing Hindus, Hindus killing Muslims, Druses killing Maronites, Jews killing Arabs, Arabs killing Christians and for a delicious variation Christians killing each other seasoned to taste and served piping hot by the snappy dresser on the evening news but, frozen fishcakes?

I saw the Prestcold mouth open for another piece of snappy repartee, and forstalled him by rapidly re-starting the cross-examination.

The tendency of the best writers of the present day is towards short, snappy, pithy sentences which rivet the attention of the reader.

I draw myself up and give him a 86 Robert Asprin snappy salute, which he returns without evenlookin' up.

Such advertising as benefits me most is done for me by the snappiest copywriters in the business.

The interconcert com-link that provides you with data-feed on the degassing operation —plus jokes, snappy comments, and complaints from all and sundry—is set to activate once we've all slotted in.

He related how he had worked up the lake, point by point, from Beaverton to Asquith, and lightened his narrative with snappy accounts of the different boatmen he had run across and of the different predicaments into which he had fallen.

You can get a pair of snappy casual shoes for 25 cents in many bowling alleys by walking out with them on your feet.

Piezki was a lawyer in the same firm as Brookings, a little younger, and not quite the snappy dresser that the dapper A.

At about 4:45, Garraty had suppera tube of processed tuna fish, a few Snappy Crackers with cheese spread, and a lot of water.

At about 4:45, Garraty had supper-a tube of processed tuna fish, a few Snappy Crackers with cheese spread, and a lot of water.