/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.
2. (
Unix) To fetch a file or set of files across a network.
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."
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.
(1995-02-21)