n. & v.
--n.
1. a light, casual, or hurried meal.
2 a small amount of food eaten between meals.
3 Austral. sl. something easy to accomplish.
--v.intr. eat a snack.
Phrases and idioms:
snack bar a place where snacks are sold.
Etymology: ME, orig. a snap or bite, f. MDu. snac(k) f. snacken (v.), var. of snappen