to snap
- verb
- /snæp/
- Informal
- I see a celebrity misbehaving, I snap a photo.
- snap a picture
- snap a photo
- snap the shutter
So let's go ahead and snap a real quick selfie here.
- So let's go ahead and snap a real quick selfie here.
- And you can snap your Instagram photos right here.
- For that reason alone, not launching the camera app, but just snapping a photo snap.
Examples
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You mind if I snap a couple pictures of you looking out the window?
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So let's go ahead and snap a real quick selfie here.
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So I snap a photo of myself.
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Let me snap one for Instagram.
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And you can snap your Instagram photos right here.
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We get in, we take some photos, snap a few videos, get the intel, and we're out.
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You drive an hour north, you snap a few pics with the ghost camera, and you put their mind at ease.
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It is looking proper, so we're about to snap some pics.
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Crammed in a Cessna, flying low over the savanna, Erickson and Stahl frantically snap photos.
Academic text (2008) -
Let me snap a quick photo of the sunset before it disappears.
Synonyms
To take a photograph or film
To take a picture of a person, place, or thing with a camera
To make a photo using a camera
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
To speak to someone in a sudden angry way without good reason
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A small thing on clothes or bags that joins two pieces by pressing two round parts together
- Specialized
A string with chalk on it that you stretch and snap to mark a straight line
- Specialized
A very quick, complete rotation of a plane around its nose-to-tail line while flying straight
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Snap for taking a photo comes from the idea of a quick, single action and the small click or 'snap' of a camera, so to snap a picture is to take it fast and simply.