snack

noun

/snæk/

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(informal) a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry
- a mid-morning snack
- I only have time for a snack at lunchtime.
- Do you serve bar snacks?
- a snack lunch
Topics Cooking and eatinga2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- light
- little
- small
- …
verb + snack
- eat
- get
- grab
- …
snack + noun
- food
- lunch
- meal
- …
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(Australian English, informal) a thing that is easy to do
- It'll be a snack.

Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.

snack

verb

/snæk/

[intransitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they snack	/snæk/ /snæk/
he / she / it snacks	/snæks/ /snæks/
past simple snacked	/snækt/ /snækt/
past participle snacked	/snækt/ /snækt/
-ing form snacking	/ˈsnækɪŋ/ /ˈsnækɪŋ/

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to eat snacks between or instead of main meals
- If you snack between meals, try to avoid sugary foods like chocolate.
- snack on something It's healthier to snack on fruit rather than chocolate.
- I usually have a light lunch and then snack on fruit and nuts during the afternoon.
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.