To fracture or break apart suddenly. • To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack. • To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc. • To attempt to seize with eagerness. • To speak abruptly or sharply. • To give way abruptly and loudly. • To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension. • To flash or appear to flash as with light. • To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound. • To jump to a fixed position relative to another element. • To snatch with or as if with the teeth. • To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose. • To say abruptly or sharply. • To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up. • To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly. • To close something using a snap as a fastener. • To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb. • To cause to move suddenly and smartly. • To move or shift suddenly. • To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound). • Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”). • To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football). • To misfire. • To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).