Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
   to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
   beak, bill. Cf. {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.]
   1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
      brittle.

            Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.

   2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

   3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

            He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
            been snapped by it at last.           --South.

   4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
      snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.

   5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
      snap a whip.

            MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   6. To project with a snap.

   {To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the
      foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
      the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
      sides are ranged in line.