snort
IPA: snˈɔrt
noun
- The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
- (slang) A dose of snuff or other drug to be snorted.
- (slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
- (nautical, UK) A submarine snorkel.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
- (transitive) To express or force out by snorting.
- (intransitive) To express contempt or disgust by (or as if by) a snorting sound.
- (transitive, slang, originally US) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
- (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.
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Examples of "snort" in Sentences
- Have another snort from the bong and pass it on, will you?
- Whether it was a giggle, a guffaw, a chortle, a snort is irrelevant.
- If you noticed too, the dire horses used the Velociraptor calling snort as well.
- They eat dirt and snort, which is what my two bulldogs, Boris and Priscilla, also do.
- Behind him, he heard the Draka snort in derision—and then moist hands were pushing him forward.
- Sir Marmaduke had arisen with a snort from a short slumber, and had just sworn that he and everybody else should go to bed, when there came
- Sir Marmaduke had arisen with a snort from a short slumber, and had just sworn that he and everybody else should go to bed, when there came a ring at the front-door bell.
- They cussed and yelled their ways through the day, took an occasional sly snort from a bottle in the bottom drawer of their desk and bit into news stories like packs of wild dogs, never letting go until they'd found and told the truth. '
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