4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Snapper \Snap"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) A snap beetle. [1913 Webster] 6. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 7. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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}. [1913 Webster] Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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}] 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}, {cracker bonbon}] 4: Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots [syn: {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}, {Chelydra serpentina}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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