Snapper

snapper
    n 1: (football) the person who plays center on the line of
         scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the
         center fumbled the handoff" [syn: {center}, {snapper}]
    2: flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
    3: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing
       candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
       [syn: {cracker}, {snapper}, {cracker bonbon}]
    4: Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
       [syn: {snapper}, {Chrysophrys auratus}]
    5: any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport
       fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal
       waters
    6: large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or
       near water; prone to bite [syn: {common snapping turtle},
       {snapper}, {Chelydra serpentina}]
    

Snapper \Snap"per\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of
      trifles; the snapper of a whip.
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   2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food
      fishes of the genus {Lutjanus}, abundant on the southern
      coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical
      America.
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   Note: The red snapper ({Lutjanus aya} syn. {Lutjanus
         Blackfordi}) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper
         ({Lutjanus griseus}) are large and abundant species.
         The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as
         the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See
         {Rosefish}.
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   3. (Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
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   4. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
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   5. (Zool.) A snap beetle.
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   6. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for
      producing clicks like those of the sounder.
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   7. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.]
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Rosefish \Rose"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
   A large marine scorpaenoid food fish ({Sebastes marinus})
   found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called
   also {red perch}, {hemdurgan}, {Norway haddok}, and also,
   erroneously, {snapper}, {bream}, and {bergylt}.
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   Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or
         orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and
         ducky brown.
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25 Moby Thesaurus words for "snapper":
      Klaxon, blunder, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, bumble,
      catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket,
      firecracker, horn, lurch, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren,
      steam whistle, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer