snapper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
noun flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
noun a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends

From snap + -er.

“What man will ever fancy you, you unlucky little snapper? — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Flibbertigibbet was the snapper for a line of twenty or more girls. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
I continued, startling his sensibilities again with the noise of the snapper. — Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants, Oliver Optic

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