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.
{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.