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Snapchat
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snapchat
English
Etymology
en snapshot chat.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsnæp.t͡ʃæt/ UK,US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Snapchat.wav US
Proper noun
en Internet social media A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.
en Snap colloquial
Derived terms
en Snap Snapchatter
Translations
photo-messaging application
Arabic: ar سْنَاب
Hindi: hi स्नैपचैट m
Māori: mi Atapaki
Polish: pl Snapchat m
Noun
thumb|A visual message on Snapchat (sense 2)
en Internet social media A user account on Snapchat.
en Snap colloquial
en Internet social media A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
en Snap
en Jessa Holbrook While You're Away 2014 Penguin https://books.google.com/books?id=W75UAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT106&dq=pics%20or%20it%20didn't%20happen&hl=es&pg=PT106#v=onepage&q&f=false 978-1-101-63731-9 “I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”
Translations
visual message sent through Snapchat Snap
Verb
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en Internet social media ditransitive intransitive To send a message on Snapchat.
en Snap
en Norah Olson 5/6, afternoon Before Now New York, N.Y. Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers 2017 162 https://archive.org/details/shazamnewbeginni0000thom/page/162/mode/1up 978-0-06-234707-7 She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.
en 2019 Big Sky Kate Atkinson 100 978-0-85752-610-6 He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.
Alternative forms
en snapchat
Derived terms
en Snapchattable Snap Streak
Anagrams
en aachnpst scanpath
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