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snap to
Move swiftly and smartly to an action, as in The troops snapped to attention. This phrase is sometimes expanded to snap to it, as in You'd better snap to it if we're going to finish today. [Early 1900s]
Example Sentences
No one’s dispatching investigators to every bodega in New Jersey, which means the drug that began as a French antidepressant is a snap to find in any old convenience store, often mixed with synthetic cannabinoids.
In December, justices on California’s 2nd District Court of Appeals denied a petition from Snap to overturn Riff’s ruling, paving the way for the proceedings in L.A. to resume.
The whole process — from snap to kick — ideally transpires in 1.3 seconds or less.
A wide wooden railing keeps probing eyes several feet away, and a deep buffer of camera-wielding tourists jostles for a snap to prove that they’d been in the presence of — well, not divinity, exactly, but close enough.
As someone who ordered a smoky, perfectly peppered pastrami on rye, with coleslaw, fries and a dill pickle with just the right snap to it, and dipped the crunchy corners of the rye bread into a smear of spicy mustard before each bite, sounds good to me.
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