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1. Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
   "The pipe snapped";
   - crack
    
2. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
   "The rope snapped";
   - tear, rupture, bust [informal]
    
3. Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
   "The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer";
   - snarl
    
4. Move or strike with a noise
   "his arm was snapped forward";
   - click
    
5. Close with a snapping motion
   "The lock snapped shut"
    
6. Make a sharp sound
   "his fingers snapped";
   - crack
    
7. Move with a snapping sound
   "bullets snapped past us"
    
8. To grasp hastily or eagerly
   "Before I could stop him the dog snapped the ham bone";
   - snatch, snatch up
    
9. Put in play with a snap
   "snap a football"
    
10. Cause to make a snapping sound
    "snap your fingers";
    - click, flick
     
11. Lose control of one's emotions
    "When her baby died, she snapped";
    - break down, lose it
     
12. Bring the jaws together quickly
    "the crocodile snapped at his foot"
     
13. [informal] Take a photograph
    "She snapped a picture of the President";
    - photograph, shoot, photo [informal]

1. A sudden sharp noise
   "he can hear the snap of a twig";
   - crack, cracking
    
2. A spell of cold weather
   "a cold snap in the middle of May"
    
3. Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
   - snap bean
    
4. A crisp round cookie flavoured with ginger
   - gingersnap, ginger snap, ginger nut
    
5. The noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
   "servants appeared at the snap of his fingers"
    
6. A sudden breaking
    
7. The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
   "the waistband had lost its snap";
   - elasticity
    
8. [informal] An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
   "my snaps haven't been developed yet";
   - snapshot, shot
    
9. [N. Amer] A fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
   "children can manage snaps better than buttons";
   - snap fastener [N. Amer], press stud [Brit]
    
10. [informal] Any undertaking that is easy to do
    - cinch [informal], breeze [informal], picnic [informal], duck soup [N. Amer, informal], child's play [informal], pushover, walkover, piece of cake [informal], doss [Brit, informal]
     
11. The act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
    "he gave his fingers a snap"
     
12. (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
    "the quarterback fumbled the snap";
    - centering [US], centring [Brit, Cdn]
     
13. The act of catching an object with the hands
    "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion";
    - catch, grab, snatch

1. Decided or done on the spur of the moment or with little warning
   "there was a snap election"

Derived forms: snapped, snapping, snaps

See also: spur-of-the-moment, sudden

Type of: act, behave, bicky [Brit, informal], bikkie [Brit, informal], bikky [Brit, informal], biscuit [Brit], bite, break, close, clutch, come apart, cookie [N. Amer], cooky [N. Amer, informal], disunite, divide, do, enter, exposure, fall apart, fastener, fastening, fixing, flip, go, green bean, hit, holdfast, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], motility, motion, mouth, move, movement, noise, part, pass, patch, photo, photograph, physical property, pic [informal], piccy [informal], picture, piece, prehend [archaic], project, put down, record, seize, seize with teeth, separate, shut, sound, speak, spell, split up, talk, task, toss, touch, touching, undertaking, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize, while

Antonym: inelasticity

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