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 fluids 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)