snarf : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snarf	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for snarf
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snarf v make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
snarf /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also {BLT}. 2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also {blast}. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking -- {FTP}ing megs of stuff a day." 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Syn. for {slurp}. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core, then...." 5. [GEnie] To spray food or {programming fluid}s due to laughing at the wrong moment. "I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I snarfed all over my desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard {condom}." [This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
snarf /snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also {BLT}. 2. ({Unix}) To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also {blast}. 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Synonym for {slurp}. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core." 5. ({GEnie}) To spray food or {programming fluid}s due to laughing at the wrong moment. This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers - ESR. 6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eat piggishly". It may still have this connotation in context. 7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usually covertly. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-21)