to snap back

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to snap back - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Snapping.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
     to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
     beak, bill. Cf. Neb, Snaffle, n.]
     1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
        brittle.
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              Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.
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     2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
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     3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
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              He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
              been snapped by it at last.           --South.
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     4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
        snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.
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     5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
        snap a whip.
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              MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     6. To project with a snap.
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     7. (Cricket) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just
        snicked a bowled ball).
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     To snap back (Football), to roll the ball back with the
        foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
        the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
        sides are ranged in line.
  
     To snap off.
        (a) To break suddenly.
        (b) To bite off suddenly.
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