on 10/11/01 2:36 AM, Sean Luke at sean_at_cs.gmu.edu wrote:
> As someone recently asked about this: "snarf" is an old computer lingo
> term which typically means to suck large amounts of data from one place to
> another, often someone's computer code, without the owner's knowledge but
> with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't mind.
>
> Such as: to make the Newton Java Asteroids game, I snarfed John Hall's
> Asteroids applet source and made mods to it.
It also means to stuff you face full of food in a rather inelegant manner,
i.e. "He really snarfed that bag of chips!" It probably originated in the
biological function and migrated to the electronic world. I know I used to
use this word when I was a kid. :-)
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