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Snickers

//ˈsnɪkəɹz// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, with a peanut, caramel and nougat filling.

    "Over in a corner of the building, amid the packing crates and pallets, the snack bar is doing a land-office business. Burgers, hot dogs, potato chips, Snickerses, some fresh fruit and some tired-looking pastries, soda, and very respectable coffee are being dispensed by a hurried man named Willie and his three female assistants."

  2. 2
    plural of snicker form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of snicker form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Coined in 1930, from the name of a favorite horse owned by the Mars family, from snicker (“to whinny”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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