snapper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
    center.
    • the center fumbled the handoff
  2. noun flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
  3. noun a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
    cracker bonbon; cracker.
  4. noun Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
    Chrysophrys auratus.
  5. noun any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
  6. noun large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
    Chelydra serpentina; common snapping turtle.

WordNet

Snap"per noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
  2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America. ✍ The red snapper (Lutjanus aya, ∨ Blackfordi) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (L. griseus) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See Rosefish.
  3. (Zoöl.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
  4. (Zoöl.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
  5. (Zoöl.) A snap beetle.

Webster 1913