From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsnappersnap‧per /ˈsnæpə $ -ər/ noun [countable] HBFa type of fish that lives in warm seas, often used as food
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snapper• There are lots of other restaurants to choose from offering grilled prawns and snapper, tuna and lobster.• Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper.• Trey Junkin, the Raiders' long snapper and special-teams player extraordinaire, was ejected in the second quarter.• Nice try, but we like the pic our snapper took of you much better.• Chrissie passed Bodie a polythene snapper bag, then left the room again.• I made her favorite red snapper with tomato sauce.• Which, it should not surprise us, catalog not a few snapshots of red snappers.• She would be that red snapper. 