(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
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flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
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a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
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Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
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any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
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large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
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Snapper \Snap"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Note: The red snapper ({Lutjanus aya} syn. {Lutjanus Blackfordi}) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper ({Lutjanus 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. (Zo["o]l.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A snap beetle.
6. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Rosefish \Rose"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large marine scorp[ae]noid food fish ({Sebastes marinus}) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also {red perch}, {hemdurgan}, {Norway haddok}, and also, erroneously, {snapper}, {bream}, and {bergylt}.
Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown.
A relatively scarce species, red snapper brings $8 to $14 a pound, while other snappers bring just $3 to $4 a pound.
But while business is down _ and LeRoy admits losing millions of dollars _ business lunchers and out-of-towners continue to come for the clubby atmosphere, creme brulee, red snapper and Sunday brunch.
Later, they were reassembling to talk politics over a working dinner at the Bayou Bend, a mansion-turned-museum where the summit fare included tortilla soup, grilled red snapper and blackberry peach swirl ice cream.
Fishermen argued, however, that the gulf's snapper industry is in greater need of protecting.