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snappy
adjective- fashionably smart UK, 1881
Especially as “snappy dresser”. - All of the Elephant Gang were snappy dressers. — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 196, 2000
- short-tempered; irritable US, 1834
- [W]hen your toddler is getting into everything and you find yourself being especially snappy with her[.] — American Academy of Pediatrics, Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, p. 284, 1998
▶ make it snappy; look snappy
to be quick UK, 1926
Often used as an imperative.- [I]f you’d been on a jaunt in Louisiana, and there’d been alligator on the menu, and you’d ordered it, don’t try to tell me you wouldn’t have added: “And make it snappy”? — The Observer, 28 December 2003
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