snapper
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snapper (plural snappers)
- Any of some 100 different species of fish.
- (Australian, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, but usually the adult fish of that species, with the young instead called cockney then red bream then squire, before reaching adulthood. (Reference: Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309. And Snapper entry in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 [1])
- (US) Any of a family of percoid fishes (Lutjanidae), esp. the red snapper
- (Irish) (slang) A baby (a human baby).
- 1993: The Snapper — title of novel and film by Roddy Doyle
- (American football) - the player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
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