Snap
English
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editSnap
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat.
- 2020, Theresa Payton, Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
- Others pointed to messages on Snap, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with doctored clips of “news reports” saying that voting was rigged where they lived and said, Why even bother voting?
- 2021, David Sharpe, Gentlemen’s Guide to Flirting, →ISBN:
- Do you have snap? That at least has voice messages we could trade without trading numbers..ya know, in case im a psycho
- 2022, Lee Call, The Angel Room, J Emrys Press, →ISBN:
- “What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
- 2023, Isa Watson, Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
- “What’s your Snap handle? We should become friends.”
- 2023, Jyoti Patel, The Things That We Lost, #Merky Books, →ISBN:
- That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??
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Snap (plural Snaps)
- (social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- Synonym: Snapchat
- (social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- 2022, Kasie West, Places We’ve Never Been, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 97:
- “Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.
- 2022, Lee Call, The Angel Room, J Emrys Press, →ISBN:
- “What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.
- 2023, Mike Thayer, The Talent Thief, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:
- “I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”
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editSnap (third-person singular simple present Snaps, present participle Snapping, simple past and past participle Snapped)
- (social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- Synonym: Snapchat
- 2020 October, Eileen Moskowitz-Palma, School Squad (The Popularity Pact; 2)[2], New York, N.Y.: Running Press Kids, →ISBN:
- “Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”
- 2022, Leo Neet, 1000 Secrets, a Million Lies: Confessions of a Sex Addict, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 45:
- I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask[sic] me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.
- 2024, Suzanne Samples, Thirteen Tunnels[3], [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Running Wild Press, →ISBN:
- Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. […] One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.