snapper
Definitions
Food
- An inshore fish, Chrysophrys auratus, of the red snapper type found in New Zealand and the Arabian gulf
Slang
- noun a child. The term, popularised by the Irish writer Roddy Doyle’s story and 1993 film of the same name, may have originated as a shortening of ‘whippersnapper’ or ‘bread-snapper’.
- noun a male homosexual, in armed-forces’ usage
