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Snap Streak en · NOUN

Etymology

From Snap + streak.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, qualifier:social media) A feature on the social media app Snapchat that tracks how many consecutive days a user and their friend have exchanged photo or video messages ("Snaps") with each other.
    • Streaks became what separated my "real" friends from the rest of my contacts on the app. I had to maintain snap streaks not because my friends or I wanted to, but because letting it disappear would see that physical quantification of our friendship fall back down to zero. 2017 August 12, Nick Vega, “I just lost a 159-day Snapchat streak and I couldn't be happier”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2018:

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