snarf /snɑː(ɹ)f/ verb4 •(slang) To eat or consume greedily.He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes! •(slang) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.I snarfed the whole database into my program. •(slang) To fetch (in general).Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory. — 1995 •(slang) 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. formssnarfed · snarfing · snarfs