What a center will do to a football at the start of a play

Publish date: 2024-09-05
•To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.•To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.•To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.•To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.•To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.•To project with a snap.•To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.•To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.•To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.•To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.•To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.•A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.•A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.•A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.•A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.•A greedy fellow.•That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.•A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.•A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.•A snap beetle.•A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.•Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.•Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

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