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Snaffle (Verb)

Meaning 1

Fit or restrain with a snaffle; "snaffle a horse".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Examples

  • The horse trainer carefully snaffled the young mare before attempting to mount her.
  • To ensure the horse's safety, the rider snaffled it prior to the veterinarian's examination.
  • After years of experience, the stable hand could snaffle a difficult horse with ease.
  • The biting snaffle was used to snaffle the stubborn stallion that had been refusing to obey commands.
  • The instructor demonstrated how to properly snaffle a horse without causing discomfort or injury.

Related Words

  • Snaffle (noun)

Meaning 2

Get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale".

Classification

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

Examples

  • During the online sale, Sarah managed to snaffle the last discounted gaming console within minutes of the offer being posted.
  • Some customers snaffled up all the limited-edition chocolates before they even hit store shelves.
  • Emily snaffled the opportunity to interview her favorite celebrity when the publicist offered her the exclusive.
  • The investors quickly snaffled up all the available shares in the highly anticipated initial public offering.
  • In an instant, the eager shoppers snaffled the last few deeply discounted televisions during the Black Friday sale.

Synonyms

  • Grab
  • Snap Up

Hypernyms

  • Take

Hyponyms

  • Hog
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