snapper
noun
- a person or thing that snaps
- pl. snappers or snapper
- ☆ snapping turtle
- any of a family (Lutjanidae) of percoid fishes inhabiting most warm seas; esp., the red snapper
- ☆
- punch line
- the climactic, often surprising or shocking part of a story, speech, etc.
See snapper in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(snăpˈər)
noun- One that snaps.
- pl. snapper snapper or snap·pers Any of numerous widely distributed marine fishes of the family Lutjanidae (or Lutianidae), many of which are prized as food fishes, that are found chiefly in warm coastal waters of the Pacific and Atlantic.
- A snapping turtle.
- See schnapper.
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