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Meanings of snapper in English

Catalan
central
Spanish
centrocampista

(Football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback.

central

A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.

Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite.

Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots.

Usage of snapper in English
1
Yes, there are snapper, sexier and snazzier social networking sites out there.
The Irish Times
2
You will need to cook the snapper before the risotto is ready.
Radio NZ
3
I continued, startling his sensibilities again with the noise of the snapper.
Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
4
Season the snapper on both sides and add to the pan, skin-side-down.
Radio NZ
5
With his pole in one hand, he studied the brilliant red snapper.
Lola Carlyle Reveals All
6
Flibbertigibbet was the snapper for a line of twenty or more girls.
Flamsted quarries
7
Art Mels colossal fish sandwich contains fried snapper, tartar sauce and coleslaw.
Ebony
8
In general, we like firmer fillets, such as red snapper or monkfish.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
9
He's from the Philippines, and the best snapper-boat gunner you ever saw.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
10
But Shea McClellin hurdled snapper Morgan Cox and easily blocked the kick.
Reuters
11
Once get the snapper chest, and we're right as ninepenn'orth o' hapence.
For the Term of His Natural Life
12
And I was a young cloud-snapper with a head full of foolishness.
The Neverending Story
13
And the rose snapper's face is the stage on which it unfolds.
Wired
14
People were also fishing for snapper at this time of year.
Radio NZ
15
The skinny young whipper-snapper's still warming a chair, is he? Godel looks delighted.
Down On The Farm
16
This isn't the first time the legendary snapper has photographed the royal family.
News.com.au
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New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Rare
United Kingdom
Rare