snapper

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  • n snapper large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
  • n snapper any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
  • n snapper Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
  • n snapper a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
  • n snapper flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
  • n snapper (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback "the center fumbled the handoff"
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• • Snapper (Teleg) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
  • Snapper (Zoöl) A snap beetle.
  • Snapper (Zoöl) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper .
  • Snapper A string bean.
  • Snapper (Zoöl) 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.
  • Snapper One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
  • Snapper (Zoöl) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
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• • n snapper One who or that which snaps, in any sense. Specifically— One who snaps up something; one who takes up stealthily and suddenly; a thief.
  • n snapper A cracker-bonbon.
  • n snapper The cracker on the end of a whip-lash; figuratively, a smart or caustic saying to wind up a speech or discourse.
  • n snapper A fire-cracker or snapping-cracker
  • n snapper A snapping-beetle.
  • n snapper A snappin g turtle.
  • n snapper One of various fishes:
  • n snapper The snap-mackerel or bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix. See cut under bluefish.
  • n snapper The rose-fish, redfish, or hemdurgan, Sebastes marinus. See cut under Sebastes.
  • n snapper A sparoid fish of the subfamily Lutjaninæ. They are large, handsome fishes, of much economic value, as Lutjanus caxis or griseus, the gray, black, or Pensacola snapper; L. blackfordi or vivanus, the red snapper; Rhomboplites aurorubens, the bastard snapper or mangrove-snapper. All these occur on the Atlantic coast of the United States, chiefly southward. The red snapper, of a nearly uniform rose-red color, is the most valuable of these; it is caught in large numbers off the coast of Florida, and taken to all the principal northern markets. The gray snapper is of a greenish-olive color, with brown spots on each scale and a narrow blue stripe on the cheek. There are also Malayan and Japanese snappers of this kind, called lutjang, the source of the technical name of the genus.
  • n snapper In ornithology:
  • n snapper The green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis. See cut under popinjay.
  • n snapper One of various American flycatchers (not Muscicapidæ) which snap at flies, often with an audible click of the beak; a flysnapper. See cut under flysnapper.
  • n snapper plural Castanets.
  • n snapper In glass manufacturing, a workman who operates a snap or case. See snap, 16.
  • n snapper An automatic attachment to a sounding-lead for taking samples of the bottom. It consists of jaws which close when the lead strikes the sea-bottom.
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