I've known him since he was a little snapper.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
US Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
At thirty-nine, her snapper was snapping at practically every man that appeared halfway decent and had a pulse.2004, Mary B. Morrison, Never Again Once More:
Then, get this, when we finished, she grabbed what looked like one of her husband's T-shirts, wiped her snapper, threw it into the back, […]2010, Phil Torcivia, Nice Meeting You:
I don't want a pause before the snapper.1976, Larry Wilde, How the Great Comedy Writers Create Laughter, page 101:
The end should always be a “snapper.” The punchline of a monologue is extremely important. Find a good one.2011, Judy Kerr, Acting is Everything:
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In fact, he began the comic by coming up with the final panel, which he called “the snapper,” and worked backward.2018, Michelle Ann Abate, Funny Girls, page 55:
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Government, PoliticsUS, Historical A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
Etymology From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).
1
To stumble, to trip.
2
Figuratively To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally.
A curate in specyall To snappar and to fall Into this opyn crymec. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 141–143:
snapper
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Etymology From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).