/snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT. 2. (Unix) To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Synonym for slurp. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core." 5. (GEnie) To spray food or programming fluids due to laughing at the wrong moment. This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers - ESR. 6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eat piggishly". It may still have this connotation in context. 7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usually covertly. [Jargon File] (1995-02-21)

1. v.
1) To eat messily, noisily, and quickly; also, to have food come out of one's facial orifices.
I snarfed my lunch because I only had ten minutes to eat.
2) To consume totally and in secret.
Hey, Chris shouted, who snarfed all the biscuits?
2. n.
1) an unlikeable, ugly, or unappealing person
2) A unit of measurement, roughly equal to 1/16th of an inch (approx. 1.6mm)
Can be divided into an arf (one-half snarf, 1/32nd inch) and an rf (one-quarter snarf, 1/64th).
Hey Bobby! This piece of wood you cut is too long. Take a snarf more off, would ya?
3) Drinking and then spraying liquid out your nose.
Hahaha! You flat out snarfed that Sprite. Want a tissue?
4) getting a great item at a low price at an antique auction
I really snarffed up that item fast

Snarf is a term used by computer programmers and the UNIX community meaning to copy a file or data over a network, for any purpose, with additional specialist meanings to access data without appropriate permission. It also refers to using command line tools to transfer files through the HTTP, gopher, finger, and FTP protocols without user interaction, and to a method of achieving cache coherence in a multiprocessing computer architecture through observation of writes to cached data.

/snarf'n-barf'/ Under a WIMP environment, the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a mainstream expression for an "eat now, regret it later" cheap restaurant expedition. [Jargon File] (1994-11-04)

To snarf, with the connotation of absorbing, processing, or understanding. "I'll snarf down the latest version of the nethack user's guide - it's been a while since I last played." [Jargon File] (1994-11-04)