snapper

(noun)

noun

1. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback

Similar word(s): center

Definition categories: person, lineman

2. flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas

Definition categories: food

3. a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends

Similar word(s): cracker

Definition categories: man–made, favor, favour

4. Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots

Definition categories: animal, sparid

5. any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

Definition categories: animal, percoid

6. large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite

Definition categories: animal

Sentences with snapper as a noun:

- a snapper-up of trifles

- the snapper of a whip

- 1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper.