snack

a snack

slang Someone who is very physically attractive or appealing. Ooh girl, you're looking like a snack tonight! With those lips and that hair, Ben's a total snack. She's just standing over there, looking like a snack—think she'd talk to dorks like us?

See also: snack

fix (something) for breakfast/lunch/dinner/etc.

To make or prepare some dish for a particular meal. I'm fixing spaghetti and meatballs for dinner tonight. We better get out of here if Aunt Louise is fixing something for supper—you know she can't cook. I'm not fixing anything for breakfast, but we do have a few types of cereal you can choose from.

See also: breakfast, dinner, fix, for, lunch

looking like a snack

slang Looking very physically attractive or appealing. He's just standing over there, looking like a snack—you should go talk to him. Ooh girl, you're looking like a snack tonight!

See also: like, look, snack

snack down

To eat large amounts of food, especially that which is small, insubstantial, or heavily processed. The verb can be used transitively or intransitively. I snacked the sandwich down in a matter of minutes and was left feeling just as hungry as I was before. Drinking more water will help you snack down less throughout the day. We spent the whole sleepover snacking down on potato chips and pizza.

See also: down, snack

snack off (of) (something)

1. To eat small amounts of food displayed or provided on some surface. The grocery store fired the employee after it was discovered that he had been snacking off the shelves. My kids are such fussy eaters that I usually snack off of their plates to avoid wasting food.

2. To eat small amounts of something as a snack. I love watching the birds and squirrels come up to the feeder throughout the day to snack off of seeds. I've been snacking off that roast ham all day, so I'm not terribly hungry.

See also: off, snack

snack on (something)

To eat small amounts of something as a snack. I love watching the birds and squirrels come up to the feeder throughout the day to snack on seeds. I've been snacking on that roast ham all day, so I'm not terribly hungry.

See also: on, snack

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snack off (of) something

to eat food, bit by bit, in little snacks. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Please don't snack off the turkey so we can get another meal out of it. Who has been snacking off of last night's roast beef?

See also: off, snack

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

snack on

v.

To eat something as a snack: One way to lose weight is to snack on carrots instead of junk food.

See also: on, snack

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