WordWeb Online

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
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [informal], purloin, pinch [Brit, informal], abstract, swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift, whip [Brit, informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [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

Derived forms: snarfing, snarfed, snarfs

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

Encyclopedia: Snarf