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Scooby snack en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskuːbi ˌsnak/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Scooby Snacks, the name of a fictitious brand of dog biscuits enjoyed by Shaggy and Scooby-Doo in the cartoon Scooby-Doo.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A treat, usually a snack, especially if given as a reward.
    • It's over, and I scored not so much as a Scooby Snack. 2005, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A., page 61:
    • If for some reason the heart is not feather-light, it is Anubis' grim task to toss it like a Scooby snack to the menacing, ever-hungry she-monster, Ammit. 2003, Denise Dumars, Lori Nyx, The Dark Archetype: Exploring the Shadow Side of the Divine, page 71:
    • Then we will send them along the conveyor belt to be packaged and shipped off to some Java engineer turned writer who is in desperate need of a Scooby Snack. 2000, Dick Steflik et al., Advanced Java Networking, page 2:
  2. (in-plural, often, slang) A recreational drug, particularly cannabis or methamphetamine.
    • "And then there's the question of what he's going to do when you run out of scooby snacks. You think he's tweaking now..." 2006, David Wellington, Monster Nation, page 226:
    • Runnin' around, robbin' banks, all whacked off of Scooby snacks 1996, “Scooby Snacks”, in Come Find Yourself, performed by Fun Lovin' Criminals:
    • '“On my honor,” I said, “I am not whacked up on Scooby Snacks.”' 2005, Meg Cabot, Darkest Hour, page 225:
    • "Scooby snacks! Can we, pleeease?" Malik grinned wryly, broke a baggy of weed out, and started stuffing the pipe." 2001, Jaina Bell, Retards, Rebels, & Slackers, page 25:
  3. A cocktail made from Midori, banana liqueur, coconut rum, and pineapple juice.

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Translations (1)

pl Scooby Chrupki (A treat)

wikipedia: Scooby-Doo (character) · wikipedia: Shaggy Rogers · wikipedia: Scooby-Doo