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Snap
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snap SNAP
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Snap.wav US
Proper noun
en colloquial en Snapchat.
en Theresa Payton Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth w:Rowman & Littlefield 2020 9781538133507 Others pointed to messages on Snap, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with doctored clips of “news reports” saying that voting was rigged where they lived and said, Why even bother voting?
en David Sharpe Gentlemen’s Guide to Flirting 2021 978-1-7367984-0-9 Do you have snap? That at least has voice messages we could trade without trading numbers..ya know, in case im a psycho
en Lee Call The Angel Room J Emrys Press 2022 979-8-9861535-2-0 “What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
en Isa Watson Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life w:BenBella Books 2023 9781637740934 “What’s your Snap handle? We should become friends.”
en Jyoti Patel The Things That We Lost #Merky Books 2023 978-1-529-11944-2 That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??
Usage notes
Not to be confused with its developer Snap Inc.
Noun
thumb|A Snap (sense 1) on a smartphone
en social media A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
en Snapchat
en 2019-08-06 Becky Pemberton Snapchat streaks: How to get back a lost streak and how to report a problem w:The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017758/snapchat-streak-report-problem-get-back-lost/ The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days. https://web.archive.org/web/20250116093259/https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017758/snapchat-streak-report-problem-get-back-lost/ 16 January 2025
en social media colloquial en Snapchat user account on Snapchat.
en Kasie West Places We’ve Never Been Delacorte Press 2022 97 978-0-593-17630-6 “Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.
en Lee Call The Angel Room J Emrys Press 2022 979-8-9861535-2-0 “What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
en Mike Thayer The Talent Thief Feiwel and Friends 2023 9781250771049 “I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”
Alternative forms
en snap
Translations
visual message sent through Snapchat
Finnish: fi snäppi
Hindi: hi स्नैप m
Polish: pl snap m
Turkish: tr snap
Verb
en social media ditransitive To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
en Snapchat#Verb
en Eileen Moskowitz-Palma School Squad The Popularity Pact 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=2_TNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56 New York, N.Y. Running Press Kids October 2020 9780762467471 “Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”
en Leo Neet 1000 Secrets, a Million Lies: Confessions of a Sex Addict Pittsburgh, Pa. Dorrance Publishing Co 2022 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnSHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 979-8-8852-7000-7 I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.
en Suzanne Samples Thirteen Tunnels https://books.google.com/books?id=UWe1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT178 [Los Angeles, Calif.] Running Wild Press 2024 978-1-955062-85-5 Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.
Alternative forms
en snap
Descendants
is snappa 1
Anagrams
en anps NSPA ANPs NPAS span PANs naps PNAs pans APNS PNAS SPAN Pans Span NPAs
en Nicknames