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.