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Move swiftly and smartly to an action, as in The troops snapped to attention . This phrase is sometimes expanded to snap to it , as in You'd better snap to it if we're going to finish today . [Early 1900s]

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Looks as if you were going to have a snap to-night, Joe, said Mills.

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