snarl

n 1: a vicious angry growl

2: an angry vicious expression

3: something jumbled or confused [syn: {complication}, {tangle}]

v 1: utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; `"No!," she

snapped'; "The guard snarled at us" [syn: {snap}]

2: make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise;

"Bullets snarled past us"

3: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child

entangled the cord" [syn: {entangle}, {tangle}, {mat}]

[ant: {disentangle}, {disentangle}]

4: make more complicated or confused through entanglements

[syn: {snarl up}, {embrangle}]

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)