Source : WordNet®

snarf
     v : make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
          {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak},
          {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

snarf
     
        /snarf/ 1. To grab, especially to grab a large document or
        file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's
        permission.
     
        See also {BLT}.
     
        2. ({Unix}) To fetch a file or set of files across a network.
     
        See also {blast}.
     
        3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or
        politesse (but not quite by stealing).  "They were giving away
        samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them."
     
        4. Synonym for {slurp}.  "This program starts by snarfing the
        entire database into core."
     
        5. ({GEnie}) To spray food or {programming fluid}s due to
        laughing at the wrong moment.  This sense appears to be
        widespread among mundane teenagers - ESR.
     
        6. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning "to eat
        piggishly".  It may still have this connotation in context.
     
        7. A creature on the Thundercats, fond of eating, usually
        covertly.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1995-02-21)