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Snapper : (noun)
1: (football) the person who plays center on the line of
scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the
center fumbled the handoff" [syn: center]
2: flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
3: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing
candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
[syn: cracker, cracker bonbon]
4: Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
[syn: Chrysophrys auratus]
5: any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport
fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal
waters
6: large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or
near water; prone to bite [syn: common snapping turtle,
Chelydra serpentina]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Snapper : \Snap"per\, n.
1. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for
producing clicks like those of the sounder.
2. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Snapper : \Snap"per\, n.
1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of
trifles; the snapper of a whip.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large sparoid
food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the
southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of
tropical America.
Note: The red snapper ({Lutjanus aya, or Blackfordi) and the
gray, or mangrove, snapper ({L. griseus) are large and
abundant species. The name is loosely applied to
various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish,
the red grouper, etc. See Rosefish.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A snap beetle.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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