From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snarf
v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer},
{cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf},
{swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
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 fluid}s 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!}.
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