Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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, or Blackfordi}) and the
         gray, or mangrove, snapper ({L. 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.