snarf

verb

Etymology: Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.

1. To eat or consume greedily.

   “He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!”

   “Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container[…]”

2. To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

   “I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.”

   “As the two friends […] exited the door, they noticed two businesses, quick to snarf up the growing gay market in holiday spendingg, had pinned up notices.”

3. To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.

   “I snarfed the whole database into my program.”

4. To fetch (in general).

   “Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.”

   “...in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language […]”