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Noun:

  • American football - the player who snaps the ball to start the play.
  • Any of some 100 different species of fish.
  • New Zealand English The fish ''Chrysophrys auratus'', but usually the adult fish of that species, with the young instead called cockney then red bream then squire, before reaching adulthood. (Reference: ''Australian Fish and How to Catch Them'', Richard Allan, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309. And ''Snapper'' entry in ''An Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', 1966 [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/S/Snapper/Snapper/en])
  • Ireland slang A baby (a human baby).
  • slang One who takes snaps; a photographer.
  • Lutjanidae, esp. the red snapper
  • US Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.

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