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snack

  [snak]
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–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.
—Idiom
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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Fresh Produce at Safeway
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Discover the Roots of Soy
 For thousands of years soy has been integral to diets around the world.
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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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Snack

Snack\, n. [See Snatch, v. t.]

1. A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks." --Pope.

2. A slight, hasty repast. [Colloq.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : snack
Spanish: tentempié,
German: der Imbiß, Imbiß-…,
Japanese: 軽食
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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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