- (informal)
a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry 点心;小吃;快餐 a mid-morning snack 上午十点左右吃的点心 I only have time for a snack at lunchtime. 中午,我的时间只够吃点心。 Do you serve bar snacks? 你这儿卖不卖快餐? a snack lunch 快餐午饭
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- light
- little
- small
- …
- eat
- get
- grab
- …
- food
- lunch
- meal
- …
- (Australian English, informal)
a thing that is easy to do 易办到的事;“小菜一碟”
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.