snarf

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To eat or consume greedily.

   “He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!”

   “Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]”

   “"I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."”

   “The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.”

2. (slang, transitive)To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

   “I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.”

   “As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices.”

3. (slang, transitive)To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

   “I snarfed the whole database into my program.”

4. (broadly, slang, transitive)To fetch (in general).

   “Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.”

   “...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]”

   “2001: Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing, in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314. Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation; […]”