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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (foldoc)

/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)