/ snæk; NAmE / noun , verb
■ noun
1.
( informal ) a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry :
a mid-morning snack
I only have time for a snack at lunchtime.
Do you serve bar snacks?
a snack lunch
2.
( AustralE , informal ) a thing that is easy to do :
It'll be a snack.
■ verb
[ v ] snack on sth to eat snacks between or instead of main meals :
It's healthier to snack on fruit rather than chocolate.
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WORD ORIGIN
Middle English (originally in the sense snap, bite ): from Middle Dutch snac(k) , from snacken to bite, variant of snappen . Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.