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snarfing
vb. (present participle of snarf English)
Wikipedia
Snarfing
Snarf is a term used by computer programmers meaning to grab a large document, file or any data, and use it without the author's (owner) permission. In the UNIX community the term means the acquisition of a file or set of files across a network. It also refers to using command line tools to transfer files through the HTTP, gopher, finger and FTP protocols without user interaction, and to a method of achieving cache coherence in a multiprocessing computer architecture through observation of writes to cached data.
Usage examples of "snarfing".
Sure enough, Valerie was at the small kitchen table, snarfing down cake.
We were at the Caribou Coffee in Apple Valley, snarfing down muffins (well, she was) and white tea.