Food / A1

SNAK/snæk/

A snack is a little food between meals: a snack after school. A meal is breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Snake is the animal — easy mix. Crisps, fruit, or a biscuit can be a snack.

Meaning

A small amount of food between meals.

Examples

• “I had a snack after school.”
• “Healthy snacks are in that tin.”
• “We stopped for a snack on the motorway.”

Good to know

a snack between meals. Mix-up: snake. Contrast: a meal.

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