snarf

3 definitions found

snarf - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  snarf
      v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer,
           cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf,
           swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]

snarf - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  snarf
  
     /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.
  
     See also BLT.
  
     2. (Unix) To fetch a file or set of files across a network.
  
     See also blast.
  
     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."
  
     5. (GEnie) To spray food or programming fluids due to
     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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-02-21)
  

snarf - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  snarf
   /snarf/, vt.
  
     1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of
     using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT.
  
     2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a
     network. See also blast. This term was mainstream in the late
  1960s,
     meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in
     context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking -- FTPing megs of
     stuff a day."
  
     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. Syn. for slurp. "This program starts by snarfing the entire
     database into core, then...."
  
     5. [GEnie] To spray food or programming fluids due to laughing at
     the wrong moment. "I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I
     snarfed all over my desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think
  I'll
     have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard condom." [This
  sense
     appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR] The sound of
     snarfing is splork!.