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say it: SNAP-ur
snapper is a noun meaning "(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback". It is pronounced /ˈsnæpɚ/ — SNAP-ur. It carries 6 recorded senses.
flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for snapper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.