snarf
/snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document or
file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's
permission.
See also {BLT}.
2. ({Unix}) To fetch a file or set of files across a network.
See also {blast}.
3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or
politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away
samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them."
4. Synonym for {slurp}. "This program starts by snarfing the
entire database into core."
5. ({GEnie}) To spray food or {programming fluid}s due to
laughing at the wrong moment. This sense appears to be
widespread among mundane teenagers - ESR.
6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eat
piggishly". It may still have this connotation in context.
7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usually
covertly.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-02-21)