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Snapper

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Noun

1. center, snapper

(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback

Example Sentences:
'the center fumbled the handoff'

2. snapper

flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas

3. cracker, cracker bonbon, snapper

a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends

4. chrysophrys auratus, snapper

Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots

5. snapper

any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

6. chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle, snapper

large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Snapper

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noun plural -per or -pers
1. 
any large sharp-toothed percoid food fish of the family Lutjanidae of warm and tropical coastal regions
See also red snapper
2. 
a sparid food fish, Chrysophrys auratus, of Australia and New Zealand, that has a pinkish body covered with blue spots
3.  another name for bluefish, snapping turtle
4. 
a person or thing that snaps
5. informal
a person who takes snapshots; photographer
6. Irish informal
a baby

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Snapper

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noun
1. 
a person or thing that snaps
2. Word forms: plural ˈsnappers or ˈsnapper
a.  US
snapping turtle
b. 
any of a family (Lutjanidae) of percoid fishes inhabiting most warm seas; esp., the red snapper
3.  US
a. 
punch line
b. 
the climactic, often surprising or shocking part of a story, speech, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Snapper

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n.
1.
a. One that snaps.
b. A snapping turtle.
2. pl. snapper or snap·pers
a. Any of numerous marine fishes of the family Lutjanidae of tropical and subtropical coastal waters worldwide, many of which are important food fishes.
b. A porgy (Pagrus auratus) of the Indo-Pacific region, having a pinkish body with spiny fins and valued as a food and game fish.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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