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snack

[snak]
–noun
1. a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, esp. one eaten between regular meals.
2. a share or portion.
3. Australian Slang. something easily done.
–verb (used without object)
4. to have a snack or light meal, esp. between regular meals: They snacked on tea and cake.
5. go snack or snacks, to share (profits or returns).

Origin:
1300–50; (n.) ME: a snap or bite, deriv. of snacken to snap, bite; cf. MD snack a snap; (v.) deriv. of the n.
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snack   (snāk)   
n.  
  1. A hurried or light meal.

  2. Food eaten between meals.

intr.v.   snacked, snack·ing, snacks
To eat a hurried or light meal.

[Middle English snak, variant of snacche, trap, bite, from snacchen, to snap; see snatch.]
snack'er n.
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Word Origin & History

snack 
c.1300, "to bite or snap" (of a dog), probably from M.Du. snacken "to snatch, chatter" (see snatch). The meaning "have a mere bite or morsel, eat a light meal" is first attested 1807; the noun in this sense is from 1757. Snack bar is attested from 1930.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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