1. Eat a large amount of food quickly
   "he snarfed down the cookies";
   - garbage down [informal], gobble up [informal], shovel in [informal], bolt down [informal], hoover up [Brit, informal]
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] Take by theft
   "He was going to snarf the phone someone had left behind";
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift [informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], whip [Brit, informal], blag [Brit, informal]
    
3. [slang] To spray food or fluids due to laughing at the wrong moment
   "the joke made me snarf all over my desk"
    
4. (computing) to grab a large document or file and use it without the author's permission
   "He snarfed the entire database without asking the owner"

Derived forms: snarfed, snarfs, snarfing

Type of: eat, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal

Encyclopedia: Snarf