Entry · catalog no. 7531
snack
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noun · nationwide · 2026
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1.
An attractive person; someone so good-looking they're a treat to behold.
“He walked in fresh off the barber's chair looking like a whole snack.”
Origin & Attribution
African American Vernacular English, used on Black Twitter from the late 2000s — documented as early as 2009 — before going mainstream around 2017 with its origin often dropped.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
nationwide
$SNACKThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Black Twitter — earliest documented use · 2009
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+ Cite a sourceKnow Your Meme — "Lookin' Like a Snack"
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