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snap
verb- to insult someone in a semi-formal quasi-friendly competition US
- They knew what “ranking” and “snapping”on someone meant. — New York Amsterdam News, p. 34, 29 September 1979
- — Ellen C. Bellone (Editor), Dictionary of Slang, p. 22, 1989
- Peed changed his tone, dumping the irony, snapping now. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 352, 1993
- It was a summer night and a guy named Al was snapping on Stephan. He was snapping on his whole family–his mother, his father, the car his father was driving, the hat his father was wearing. — The New York Times Magazine, 15 May 1994
- There are many different terms for playing the dozens, including “bagging, capping, cracking, dissing, hiking, joning, ranking, ribbing, serving, signifying, slipping, sounding and snapping”. — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
- to realise something suddenly; to experience an epiphany US
- He was picked up in drag and they were booking him into the woman’s wing of the county jail before they snapped. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 239, 1967
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 60, 1972: “Glossary”
- She couldn‘t have picked up on slang or anything else because I don’t use that kind of language. She just snapped after an introduction[.] — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 150, 1972
- to flex, and thus contract, the sphincter during anal sex US
- — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 32, 1972
▶ snap in
to engage in rifle target practice US
Korean war usage.- Following his week of dummy practice, referred to as “snapping-in,” we will move to Chappo flats, the huge post rifle range, for qualification[.] — Martin Russ, The Last Parallel, p. 10, 1953
▶ snap out of it
to stop dreaming; to face reality; to change your mind-set UK, 1918
Often used as an imperative.- When are we going to stop treating people suffering from depression like whiny, red-eyed couch-potato defeatists who could snap out of it if they only turned the temperature up on their stiff upper lip? — The Guardian, 27 January 2004
▶ snap to it
to urgently begin to do something UK, 1918- [T]he only known way to solve Saturn’s tasks: with painstaking exactitude. Snap to it. — The Observer, 20 June 2004
▶ snap your cap
to lose your sanity US- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 57, 1973
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 215, 1990
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