snarf.
To eat or consume greedily.
Meaning & usage
To eat or consume greedily.
He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
I snarfed the whole database into my program.
To fetch (in general).
Where this word comes from
Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.
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