Snapper vs Sapper - What's the difference?
snapper | sapper |
One who, or that which, snaps.
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
# (Australia, New Zealand) The fish , especially an adult of the species.
# (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
(Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
(American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
(US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
(slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
(US, informal) The snapping turtle.
The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
A snap beetle.
One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer'' or ''military engineer .
(British, colloquial) an officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
As nouns the difference between snapper and sapper
is that snapper is one who, or that which, snaps while sapper is one who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.snapper
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Alternative forms
* schnapper (fish)Noun
(en noun)- a snapper -up of trifles
- the snapper of a whip
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Hyponyms
* (adolescent), squire (pre-adult)1990''', Richard Allan, ''Australian Fish and How to Catch Them'', ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309.''“Snapper”'', entry in '''1966 , ''An Encyclopedia of New Zealand .