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From:
Jim Cromie
Date:
November 21, 2003 09:02
Subject:
Re: bug or a feature? BTW: a dictionary definition
Message ID:
3FBE4505.5010705@divsol.com
Torsten Foertsch wrote:

>BTW, what does RsSNARF (or simply snarf) mean? I have looked it up at 
>http://dict.leo.org with no result.
>
>  
>
I snarfed 5 answers from

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=snarf 



/tr.v./ _/Slang/_ *snarfed,* *snarf·ing,* *snarfs *

    To eat or drink rapidly or eagerly; devour: snarfed down some cookies. 


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[Probably *sn(ort)* + *(sc)arf*^3 .]



*snarf*

v : make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pilfer>, cabbage 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cabbage>, purloin 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=purloin>, pinch 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pinch>, abstract 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=abstract>, swipe 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=swipe>, hook 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hook>, sneak 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sneak>, filch 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=filch>, nobble 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nobble>, lift 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lift>]


*snarf*



/snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document or
file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's
permission.

See also BLT <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blt>.

2. (Unix <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unix>) To fetch a 
file or set of files across a network.

See also blast <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blast>.

3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or
politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away
samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them."

4. Synonym for slurp <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slurp>. 
"This program starts by snarfing the
entire database into core."

5. (GEnie <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=genie>) To spray 
food or programming fluid 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=programming%20fluid>s due to
laughing at the wrong moment. This sense appears to be
widespread among mundane teenagers - ESR.

6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eat
piggishly". It may still have this connotation in context.

7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usually
covertly.

[Jargon File <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jargon%20file>]

(1995-02-21)


<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=00-database-info&db=foldoc>


*snarf*

/snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or
file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's
permission. See also BLT <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blt>. 
2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a
file or set of files across a network. See also blast 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blast>. This term
was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning `to eat piggishly'. It
may still have this connotation in context. "He's in the snarfing
phase of hacking -- FTP 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ftp>ing megs of stuff a day." 
3. To acquire,
with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by
stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of
them." 4. Syn. for slurp 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slurp>. "This program starts 
by snarfing the
entire database into core, then...." 5. [GEnie] To spray food or
programming fluid 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=programming%20fluid>s due to 
laughing at the wrong moment. "I was
drinking coffee, and when I read your post I snarfed all over my
desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll have to
snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard condom 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=condom>." [This sense
appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR]


Source 
<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=00-database-info&db=jargon>: 
Jargon File 4.2.0


*snarf*

SNARF 
<http://www.acronymfinder.com/default.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=SNARF>: 
in Acronym Finder



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