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Snapper

noun

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

Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas.

A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends. Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon.

Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots. Synonym: Chrysophrys auratus.

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

Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite. Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle.

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"Snapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... turned toward Locke and looked at him for his acquiescence. He quietly nodded toward her in an assuring manner, and as he did so one might have noticed Balcom's face cloud up with evil purpose. He was thinking of this young whipper-snapper and his interference with his plans. As he stood meditating he noticed that Locke was looking at him, so he turned toward the young chemist and his whole expression changed. A bland smile crept across his face ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... we were assured by others of its truth. Bushy undertook to give us the names of the various fishes which abound here, but the long list of them and his peculiar pronunciation drove us nearly wild. Still a few are remembered; such as the yellow-tailed snapper, striped snapper, pork-fish, angel-fish, cat-fish, hound-fish, the grouper, sucking-fish, and so on. Both harbor and deep sea fishing afford the visitor to Nassau excellent amusement, and many sportsmen go thither annually from New ...

— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou

... in lies and fabricate stories out here like you, you young whipper-snapper of a ship's cub; and if it wasn't for your father, who has sense enough to rope's-end you himself, I'd lay a stick across your back till you hadn't a howl ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

... hills like a wild vine; it slides through gopher-hole tunnels as a thread slides through the eye of a needle; it utilizes water-courses; it turns ridiculously sharp corners in a style calculated to remind one of the days when he played "snap-the-whip" and happened to be the snapper himself. This is especially the case if one is sitting on the rear platform of the last car. We shot a canon by daylight, and marvelled at the glazed surface of the red rock with never so much as a scratch over it. On the one hand we nearly ...

— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard

... make your flesh creep. An' that though he might 'ave ate his dinner off the floor, gold studs an' all, as I told 'un at last. For 'twasn't in flesh and blood, sir—not to be ordered this way an' that by a whipper-snapper whose gran'mother I might 'a been, though he 'as got three rows o' shiny buttons on 'is stummick, which is no cause for a proud carriage toward them as 'asn't, nor callin' 'em slow-coaches and names which I won't soil my tongue wi'—an' ...

— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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