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Snack vs Snuck - What's the difference?

snack | snuck |

As verbs the difference between snack and snuck

is that snack is to eat a light meal while snuck is past tense of sneak.

As a noun snack

is a light meal.

snack

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light meal.
  • An item of food eaten between meals.
    • Derived terms
    * snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snacky
    See also
    * munchies

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat a light meal
  • to eat between meals
    • Derived terms
    * snack down

    Etymology 2

    See snatch (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    snuck

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chiefly, North America) (sneak)
  • :I snuck into the theater because the movie had already started.

    • Usage notes

    *See sneak for notes on sneaked'' vs ''snuck .

    Synonyms

    * sneaked English irregular simple past forms English irregular past participles