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snarfing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The act or habit of eating or drinking something quickly or greedily.
    • Royals spend dough on this, but to see their A players at 10 p.m. one wonders, for the evening's perfect balance of fruits, vegetables, salad, and a light chicken or fish dish is being thrown into dietary chaos by snarfings of deep-dish pizza washed down by a coolerful of beers, the empty twelve-pack cartons stacked up the kitchen wall like blocks of insulation from the hard world outside. 1995, Jerome Klinkowitz, Basepaths, page 16:

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snarfing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of snarf
    form of snarf