Noun
He had a snack of chips and dip.
I didn't have time for lunch so I just grabbed a quick snack.
peanuts, potato chips, and other snack foodsVerb
She tries not to snack between meals.
I'll just snack on an apple if I'm hungry.
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Noun
At the Shenzhen launch event, BellaBot Pro served coffee while KettyBot Pro delivered refreshments and snacks.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2026 Onboard Dining The Coast Starlight has a cafe service, where passengers can enjoy a variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items, along with snacks, wine, beer, spirits, and nonalcoholic beverages.—
Abby Price,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2026
Verb
If the birds are determined to snack on your berries or veggies, Chastain suggests using bird netting to keep them away.—The Spruce,
5 July 2026 Instead, bar-goers from New York to California were snacking on (relatively) fresh oysters.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for snack
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English snak bite, from snaken to bite, perhaps from Middle Dutch snacken to snap at — more at snatch