snarf

snarf
    v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer},
         {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf},
         {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
    

snarf
 /snarf/, vt.

   1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of
   using it with or without the author's permission. See also {BLT}.

   2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a
   network. See also {blast}. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s,
   meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in
   context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking -- FTPing megs of
   stuff a day."

   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. Syn. for {slurp}. "This program starts by snarfing the entire
   database into core, then...."

   5. [GEnie] To spray food or {programming fluid}s due to laughing at
   the wrong moment. "I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I
   snarfed all over my desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll
   have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard {condom}." [This sense
   appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR] The sound of
   snarfing is {splork!}.
    

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 fluids} 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)